Pulitzer awarded to an NY Times reporter for this story:
Awarded to David Barstow of The New York Times for his tenacious reporting that revealed how some retired generals, working as radio and television analysts, had been co-opted by the Pentagon to make its case for the war in Iraq, and how many of them also had undisclosed ties to companies that benefited from policies they defended.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/04/21/pulitzer/index.html
As George Carlin once espoused — and many times rightly so, “I never believe anything my government tells me.”
Might be time to start thinking of certain forms of big media that way, too.
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