Can't speak to djsumdog's allegations. While they're probably true, it's also possible that people are thinking of a key part of "Wag the Dog" w/ Dustin Hoffman

Can't speak to djsumdog's allegations. While they're probably true, it's also possible that people are thinking of a key part of "Wag the Dog" w/ Dustin Hoffman et al. Anyway, maybe the following links will help: http://www.foxnews.com/story/2003/03/16/hollywood-designer-creates-military-media-center.html http://www.foxnews.com/story/2003/03/16/hollywood-designer-c... and http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/7/29/hollywood-and-thepentagonarelationshipofmutualexploitation.html http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/7/29/hollywood-an... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Office_of_War_Information https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Office_of_War_In... I'm sure we all know that America's media has had a long history of telling the "right" story for the "right" reasons. I don't feel like digging around for cites, but it's pretty well known that the point of "embedding" journalists w/troops for the (formal) continuation of the 'Gulf War' was to make the journalists feel more sympathetic to the mission (troops) and thus tell the folks at home the appropriate story. There's also a long history of the CIA recruiting journalists, editors, owners, etc... Real example from recent history: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/aug/29/correspondence-collusion-new-york-times-cia https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/aug/29/corres... http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2012/08/mark-mazzetti-shared-maureen-dowd-column-with-cia.html http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2012/08/mark-mazzetti-s...