MemeMachineGo!

The Pentagon spends $200,000 on a set in Qatar where generals will give updates on the war, even as they threaten to blow up independent journalists in Iraq , even as Fox sends Oliver North to Iraq as a war correspondent (whose felony convictions included obstructing a Congressional investigation before an appeals court overturned them on the grounds that he had been granted immunity for his lies, er, testimony.)

As for the ‘embedded journalists’ :

All reporters “embedded” with U.S. troops must sign a contract agreeing to the Pentagon’s rules governing coverage. Included in the document is a clause dictating what kinds of information reporters can and cannot detail. Journalists can be precluded from reporting certain “sensitive” information according to the military commander’s discretion. What’s more, “all conversations [with the troops] must be on the record,” Schanberg said. That’s a big problem: In the Vietnam era, much of the most damning information came from military sources who would talk to reporters if their names were not used. The Pentagon can revoke a reporter’s credentials at any time, for any reason.

OK, raise your hand if you think you’ll hear one damn thing about the war from the mainstream media that the government doesn’t want you to hear.

(First three links via New World Disorder , American Samizdat , Skimble , respectively)