The big story sell gets the hook
Thursday, May 22, 2008 at 2:48AM ARTICLE: "Pentagon Suspends Briefings For Analysts," by David Barstow, New York Times, 26 April 2008, p. A11.
The PYSOP ends the minute it becomes public. Once people/targets know they've been had, there's little point in continuing it.
Clearly, it was a good deal for the retired officers:
Military analysts have echoed administration talking points, sometimes even when they suspected the information was false or inflated. Several said they had used their special access as a marketing and networking opportunity or as a window into future business possibilities.
Again, nothing wrong with networking, but something definitely wrong about parroting government lines in the media while not disclosing the obvious conflict of interest.
Americans deserve to know when they're being fed "message force multipliers."
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