Pentagon Hires Rendon Group to Profile and Rate Journalists Covering Afghanistan War

The U.S. Army in Afghanistan has admitted it pays a private company to produce background profiles on journalists covering the war. The Pentagon has been on the defensive ever since the Army newspaper Stars and Stripes revealed this week that journalists were being screened by the Washington-based public relations firm, The Rendon Group, under a $1.5 million dollar contract with the military. Documents obtained by the paper reveal journalists were ... Full Story »

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by Dwight Rousu - Aug. 30, 2009

The story of news reporting in a time of military conflict being controlled to keep the truth from American citizens is a serious issue regarding maintaining an informed democracy. The story here relates investigation of pentagon actions.

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