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Kurtz: Media won’t cover Pentagon
propaganda ‘because they are embarrassed.’
Thinkprogress
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
In a washingtonpost.com online chat today, the Post’s media critic
Howard Kurtz was asked why the television news media have largely failed
to report on the Pentagon propaganda operation revealed recently by
the New York Times. Kurtz said the media is too embarrassed to report
the story:
Toronto: Hi Howard — kudos for last Sunday’s focus on
the New York Times’s Pentagon propaganda story. Why do you think
the networks still are silent on this? The comments on Brian Williams’s
blog are at a boiling point — I’m surprised NBC hasn’t
shut it down yet!
Howard Kurtz: I can only conclude that the networks are staying away
from what would otherwise be a legitimate news story because they are
embarrassed about what some of their military analysts did or don’t
want to give the controversy more prominence.
Later in the same online chat, Kurtz said, “The networks are
ducking this one, big time.”
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