US to spend $20M to generate positive press spin on Iraq

Started by TehBorken, Sep 01 06 06:40

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TehBorken

Money well spent, I say. What else could they do with a measly 20 million bucks, anyway?

[hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"][h3]US to spend $20M to generate positive press spin on Iraq         [/h3]         Snip from [em]Washington Post[/em] story:  [blockquote]U.S. military leaders in Baghdad have put out for bid a two-year, $20 million public relations contract that calls for extensive monitoring of U.S. and Middle Eastern media in an effort to promote more positive coverage of news from Iraq. The contract calls for assembling a database of selected news stories and assessing their tone as part of a program to provide "public relations products" that would improve coverage of the military command's performance, according to a statement of work attached to the proposal.[/p][/blockquote]  [a href="vny!://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/30/AR2006083003011.html"]Link[/a]    
The real trouble with reality is that there's no background music.

Gopher

Is this an admission that their own propaganda isn't enough to hoodwink everyone?
A fool's paradise is better than none.