This continues the work done by this reporter in an April expose, "Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon's Hidden Hand" (link) which resulted in Congressional demands that the DoD stop its propaganda program (see link) . Barstow answered questions about how he came to write that article in the business pages of the Times after the paper received over 1,400 comments. (link) As I noted in my evaluation, this article is not as enterprising as it would appear. What disturbs me is that Barstow, like other reporters at the NYT often pretend to a scoop that builds on uncredited info from previous articles in supposedly "lesser" sources. For instance, in "Disclosures on Palin Raise Questions on Vetting Process," Elisabeth Bumiller, on 9/2/08, fails to acknowledge that Anchorage Daily News reporters Sean Cockerham and Wesley Loy published interviews with many of the same folks on August 29 in "Choice stuns state politicians." (For details and links, see my blog post of September 1, "Sarah, Who?" (see link) . In the current case, as Glenn Greenwald notes in "The ongoing disgrace of NBC News and Brian Williams" (see link), "Some of the key facts which Barstow reports concerning the improper behavior of McCaffrey and NBC News were documented all the way back in April, 2003, in this excellent article from The Nation, which Barstow probably should have credited today. " I've linked to the Nation article, "TV's Conflicted Experts" by Daniel Benaim, Priyanka Motaparthy and Vishesh Kumar (two former interns and a free-lancer.) Although Greenwald doesn't say so, Barstow also failed to credit Grennwald's own April 2008 coverage, "Brian Williams' 'response' to the military analyst story". (see link)