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nytimes.com - 11/30/2008

One Man’s Military- Industrial-Media Complex

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Barry R. McCaffrey, a retired Army general, has flourished at an intersection of network news and wartime commerce. >

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Political Animal — ... back in April, documenting the practice of retired U.S. generals appearing on the major cable networks as "independent" media analysts, while they were simultaneously working for defense contractors, and repeating talking points from the Pentagon. The painted picture was a train wreck of conflicts of interest and journalistic ethical malpractice. Today, Barstow has yet another blockbuster , directing his focus to one of the more prominent retired generals: Barry R. McCaffrey, a retired four-star Army general, military analyst for NBC News, and highly-paid consultant to ...

Hullabaloo — I Like Ike by digby He warned us. Unsurprisingly, it's also become a seamless part of the propaganda arm of the government, the media: In the spring of 2007 a tiny military contractor with a slender track record went shopping for a precious Beltway commodity. The company, Defense Solutions, sought the services of a retired general with national stature, someone who could open doors at the highest levels of government and help it win a huge prize: the right to supply Iraq with thousands of armored ...

Will networks ignore military analyst report?
Michael Calderone's Blog — The NY Times David Barstow follows up on his April investigation of network military analysts, and their relationships to the Pentagon and contractors, with a 5,100-word, front page look at General Barry McCaffrey. Barstow writes: "Through seven years of war an exclusive club has quietly flourished at the intersection of network news and wartime commerce. Its members, mostly retired generals, have had a foot in both camps as influential network military analysts and defense industry rainmakers. It is a deeply opaque world, a place of privileged access to senior government officials, where war commentary can fit hand in ...