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Friday, February 25, 2011

Growing niche for journalists?: publishing core dumps

MAGAZINE IS SHOCKED! SHOCKED! TO FIND OUT THAT WAR CONTINUANCE IS POLITICAL

That makes it look like someone was given room to just "leak" on the pages ofRollingstone.
I've looked at the RStone bit that "psyops" tactics were used on visiting Congresscritters. This lead national news reporters like Chris Matthews to use the word "Brainwashed" and allude to "Manchurian candidate".

Please.

So, far, it appears that they built dossiers on visitors. You know, like the kind of information that anyone would ask of their staff or even the people doing "opposition research".

There is a throw-away line that some General is more interested in his career than defeating the Taliban. That makes it look like someone was given room to just "leak" on the pages of Rollingstone.

Does Michael Hastings and/or Rollingstone really think the course of history is changed because someone knows that Sen Lieberman, say, likes flattery? And, even so, this is impermissible because ...