U.S. Net effort skirts big media

[Newsjock]

http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040227.gtarmy0227/BNStory/Technology/
U.S. Net effort skirts big media

Associated Press

KUWAIT CITY — The U.S. military will launch its own news service in Iraq and Afghanistan to send military video, text and photos directly to the Internet or news outlets.

The $6.3-million (U.S.) project, expected to begin operating in April, is one of the largest military public-affairs projects in recent memory, and is intended to allow small media outlets in the United States and elsewhere to bypass what the Pentagon views as an increasingly combative press corps.

... The U.S. public "currently gets a pretty slanted picture," said Army Captain Randall Baucom, a spokesman for the Kuwait-based U.S.-led Coalition Land Forces Command. "We want them to get an opportunity to see the facts as they exist, instead of getting information from people who aren't on the scene."

The project, called Digital Video and Imagery Distribution System or DVIDS, will also give the Pentagon more control of the coverage when calamities do happen.

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[tom_paine]

1. Holy sh*t, the whipped-dog Pravda Press Corpse shows a tiny bit of life

And these guys run to create another level of Imperial Pravda.

Well, I'm sure glad the Busheviks are now able to beam their lies out directly.

Ahhhh, they'll show Stalin down in hell how he would have been able to use the Internet.

That's all this is, yet ANOTHER Bushevik Pravda vehicle.

:puke:

[POed_Ex_Repub]

2. Ahh... the reincarnation of Bush's "good news from Iraq" initiative

I remember the last one got cut off after we had the bloodiest month of the war. Why get news from the biased media when you can get it from that unbiased Pentagon that's such a neutral source.

:puke:

[CheshireCat]

3. What a way to Spend the $$$

We have soldiers who have no armour and not enough water.

But the pentagon spends mucho $$$$$ in SPIN!

I am getting to the point where I feel that things may have gone to far - that our country has been taken from us.

Face it! Most people never think about what is going on. If they do not see it on TV, then it isn't happening.

"Connecting the dots"

Most Americans don't even understand the concept, much less take the time to try to do it.

We are in the minority, although I am seeing signs that some people are opening their eyes.

Maybe I should have said that their eyes have been forced open. Seeing your friends and neighbors come home in a body bag because they did not have the body armor they needed seems to have that effect on people.

Hearing about the Pentagon spending millions or billions of taxpayers' money on a propaganda machine, when our soldiers go without basic items of health and safety jolts me to the core.

[ixion]

4. more fair and balanced 'news'

sigh... :eyes:

[DBoon]

5. Why not just make up good news?

It's cheaper and safer than reporting what's actually happening, and most Americans don't really care if what is on TV is true or not.

In fact, they could set up an entire happy-news program covering domestic and international events, none of which really happened.