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Ah, the same tactics from Iraq II. Embed the journalists in order they develop empathy for the troops protecting them (and hope they slant the reporting enough
by mc32 4y ago
Ah, the same tactics from Iraq II. Embed the journalists in order they develop empathy for the troops protecting them (and hope they slant the reporting enough).
This is in the least, a conflict of interest.
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- jvanderbot 4y agoI think that's the opposite of what's implied here. They're implying CDC is being infiltrated by the people is is supposed to be regulating. In your example, the troops were not being infiltrated by journalists to circumvent the armies control over journalists.
- stjohnswarts 4y agoThe point is nepotism, not a point for point identical situation. The problem is that groups are cross pollinating in a situation that should be independent and by its nature adversarial a lot of the time.
- perfecthjrjth 4y agoWhat is happening is collusion. This collusion is legal too; no amount of laws on conflicts of interest will fix this.
- fallingknife 4y agoBetter they don't embed journalists, and nobody is reporting from the front lines?
- arcticbull 4y agoSome would argue that propaganda is worse than nothing. Depending on your objectives, of course. > "The first casualty when war comes is truth" - Hiram W Johnson
- lostlogin 4y agoYes. There is plenty of coverage of Ukraine and we aren’t getting the Iraq war’s fake-but-looks-real coverage that was actually misleading propaganda.
- JumpCrisscross 4y ago> is plenty of coverage of Ukraine and we aren’t getting the Iraq war’s fake-but-looks-real coverage that was actually misleading propaganda You don’t see a small handful of enabling technologies that came to market between the Iraq War and Ukraine?
- lostlogin 4y agoThat’s a good point. But the absence of this tech doesn’t mean we have to have propaganda.