Comments on: Good Things Happen, No Reporting, Did They Happen?

By: Amy Proctor

Amy Proctor — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 04:30:23 +0000

“See, we need to take this hill and hold it. This is the final piece to enable success.”

Well said, Fix. That’s why I love ya!

By: My Weekly Thoughts

My Weekly Thoughts — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 17:33:03 +0000

01/25 Morning Report

On the subject of media effectiveness, there is a continuing series on 5th Generation Warfare over at…

By: Fix4RSO

Fix4RSO — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 06:02:37 +0000

So, giving the US Military the opportunity to take, say, 5 minutes on the nightly news cycle to provide _FACTUAL_ stories about the successes of the GWOT is psyops or propaganda?

True, to the left-wing MSM, it is propaganda. The key here is that it must be made clear that the US Military is part of the US Government, just as much is Nancy Pelosi’s clap-trap - and she doesn’t spew propaganda?

See, we need to take this hill and hold it. This is the final piece to enable success.

By: Laurie

Laurie — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 05:53:40 +0000

Buck, that was a topic of conversation at the first milblog conversation. How can the military get the word out about what they are doing without it violating that. And the MSM’s perception that anything written by the military is skewed. For example, all kinds of press releases from Centcom and the other military news outlets are freely available every single day, but the only ones the MSM pick up are the casualty notices or anything negative.

By: Buck

Buck — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 19:50:37 +0000

Therefore, our US Military Command Structure needs to gain the high ground on this primary objective, take this last hill and hold it,…

We tried this once before and failed, largely due to hand-wringing and “outrage” from our friends in the MSM. The fact that the linked article states US law prohibits the military from conducting propaganda operations doesn’t help, either… I quote:

U.S. law forbids the military from carrying out psychological operations or planting propaganda through American media outlets. Yet several officials said that given the globalization of media driven by the Internet and the 24-hour news cycle, the Pentagon’s efforts were carried out with the knowledge that coverage in the foreign press inevitably “bleeds” into the Western media and influences coverage in U.S. news outlets.

In the immortal words of Walt Kelly: “We have met the enemy and he is us.”

By: Amy Proctor

Amy Proctor — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 19:23:36 +0000

Great post, and so true. Everyone knows we can beat any enemy militarily. Unfortunately, only al-Jazeera is a sneakier media outlet than the U.S. press.