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These snippets from The New York Times:
“To the public, these men are members of a familiar fraternity, presented tens of thousands of times on television and radio as “military analysts” whose long service has equipped them to give authoritative and unfettered judgments about the most pressing issues of the post-Sept. 11 world.”
“Most of the analysts have ties to military contractors vested in the very war policies they are asked to assess on air.”
“Those business relationships are hardly ever disclosed to the viewers, and sometimes not even to the networks themselves. But collectively, the men on the plane and several dozen other military analysts represent more than 150 military contractors either as lobbyists, senior executives, board members or consultants.”
This is laughable. We’ve been at war in Iraq and Afghanistan for how many years now? We’ve listened to these so-called Military Analysts on network news for how long now? And The New York Times is just learning this. And you can’t convince me the networks didn’t know. The term referring to this apparently new concept for the Times is known as the Military-industrial complex and it’s been around for decades.
Read the Times full article here