Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/01/20

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Real War
From: Tim Atherton <tim@KairosPhoto.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 19:48:37 -0700

> I'd like to know, chapter and verse, what makes you think that's the case.
> Factual references would be appreciated.

I've been reading mailing lists, briefing notes, articles etc etc for at
least the last 3 months from journalists dealing with the pentagon pool,
pentagon information policy, academics dealing with the military information
system and so on.

I'm not going to do your research for you Adam. But it's not some kind of
secret - the Pentagon is quite open about it - journalists will be allowed
access to the US forces and areas of operation, but on our terms. It's their
standard policy and they are quite open about how they are going to manage
the information coming out of Gulf War II.

You might want to track down info on the recent "war school" set-ups run for
journalists by the Pentagon, where they ran exercises ostensibly to help
journalists prepare for war, but in practice, to see how their information
management system worked.

Again - there's no conspiracy - they are quite open about it. And certainly
as far as the like of the major networks are concerned, it seems they are
happy to fall in line.

tim

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