Media, Pentagon Spar over Control of Information
Associated Press, February 6, 2009
The Pentagon now spends more than $550 million a year -- at least double the amount since 2003 -- on public affairs, and that doesn't including personnel costs. Along with putting out its own messages, the public affairs arm tries to regulate what other media put out. And as reporting out of Iraq turned more negative, the public affairs department has increased its ground rules for media who embed with troops from one to four pages.
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