pro ce .. yes . that's all understood .. are you suggesting now those who profit most from war are responsible for keeping Khamenei's position off the front of the newspapers? Was it Gen. Dempsey who has spoken out against the war? The manufacturer's et al you must be talking about.
Are you saying they have that much influence on newspaper owners and editors? That sounds to me what you are suggesting now. If so, surely not.
"pro ce .. yes . that's all understood .. are you suggesting now those who profit most from war are responsible for keeping Khamenei's position off the front of the newspapers? Was it Gen. Dempsey who has spoken out against the war? The manufacturer's et al you must be talking about.
Are you saying they have that much influence on newspaper owners and editors? That sounds to me what you are suggesting now. If so, surely not."
except the Dempsey mention .. duh! . especially the "that's all understood" .. lousy and presumptuous .. should have asked you for more detail .. i didn't think of the Generals media involvement .. but got it here ..
In 2009, The New York Times‘ David Barstow won the Pulitzer Prize for his two [ http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/us/20generals.html ]-part [ http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/washington/30general.html?pagewanted=all ] series on the use by television networks of retired Generals posing as objective “analysts” at exactly the same time they were participating — unbeknownst to viewers — in a Pentagon propaganda program. Many were also plagued by undisclosed conflicts of interest whereby they had financial stakes in many of the policies they were pushing on-air. One of the prime offenders was Gen. Barry McCaffrey, who was not only a member of the Pentagon’s propaganda program, but also, according to Barstow’s second stand-alone article, had his own “Military-Industrial-Media Complex,” deeply invested in many of the very war policies he pushed and advocated while posing as an NBC “analyst” ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~