LA Times: U.S. Military Covertly Pays to Run Stories in Iraqi Press. As part of an information offensive in Iraq, the U.S. military is secretly paying Iraqi newspapers to publish stories written by American troops in an effort to burnish the image of the U.S. mission in Iraq. The articles, written by U.S. military "information operations" troops, are translated into Arabic and placed in Baghdad newspapers with the help of a defense contractor, according to U.S. military officials and documents obtained by the Los Angeles Times.

As Gillmor says, the Keystone Cops masquerading as PsyOps Troops have now ensured that the Average Iraqi wont believe anything they read in their own papers... Where do we get these idiotic ideas?

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Posted by: MediaSpin at December 1, 2005 11:05 PM