Welcome to the investigative reporting blog of award-winning journalist Alex Roslin, author of the book Police Wife: The Secret Epidemic of Police Domestic Violence. Roslin was president of the board of the Canadian Centre for Investigative Reporting, and his awards include the Arlene Book Award of the American Society of Journalists and Authors. He doesn’t necessarily endorse material linked below.
Friday, May 9, 2008
Documents: Pentagon Embedded "Surrogates" at TV Networks
The Pentagon has released 8,000 pages on its secretive "military analyst" program, which successfully embedded at least 75 retired military officers - most of them with links to war contractors - at TV networks as "surrogates" for the Bush administration. The New York Times published this investigation of the controversial program, and John Stauber of PR Watch has also written about it here. He notes that the three major networks have yet to publish a single story reporting the snafu. The original DoD documents can be viewed here, although - ahem, surprise, surprise - they aren't posted in easily searchable format.
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