You will get your military news directly from us.
http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=4272a7ec26944f6c
Y’all had best buy a turntable to put your tv on…it’s going to be spinning an awful lot.
“We’ve always been at war with Iraq” 
We’ve never been at war with Iraq.
We’ve always been at war with Iran.
I dunno, I don’t see anything evil about this. Of course they’re going to want to put out their side. The broadcast appears as if it will be oriented to military news in general, not just the war. I don’t see where they’re going to kick all the outside reporters to the curb. I don’t see where it’s any different from the City and County of Denver propaganda I can watch whenever I want on Channel 8.
Allow me to summarize the military channel.
“Everything is fine.”
That’ll save ya’ll a bit on your cable bills.
Why do they need this, anyway? They already have Fox News. I guess being from the pentagon will give it more credibility to some people.
I can’t wait until people start tearing it apart.
I don’t mind this a bit. Let them handle their own press. If they stop feeding info to the DoD press corps maybe those guys will go out and start digging up shit on their own as opposed to simply passing along DoD press releases.
The people that need convincing that these wars are illegal will eat it up. And be that much harder to convince.
Um…I hate to break up this Grand Conspiracy, but fighting ignorance and all that.
This channel is not going to spin or propagandize anything. This administration pays hack pundits to do that. This is basically a feature driven channel that will have stories about incredibly mundane things like winter safety, training, new equipment, Morale Welfare and Recreation (MWR) activities, and so forth. The military has had reporters since the forties, working for Armed (or American) Forces Radio and Television Service. I worked for them for ten years in the Air Force, and this is simply an extension of this. I’m sure you may have seen Air Force Television News, Soldiers Radio and Television and the Navy or Marine equivalents on odd channels on your cable system. There is no investigative journalism, no breaking news, and no controversy. It’s simply stories about service men and women doing their jobs.
Think of it as a magazine style show dressed up with newsy graphics and bumps, and that’s what you have.
The Running joke at AFKN or AFN-K or whatever they call it in South Korea now was” North Korea Attacks, Seoul in flames, but first, Training!"
There is no real news, just command information written with a news style guide.
Hate to rain on your parade, but that is it.
For a real conspiracy, let’s start asking how “Jeff Gannon” got himself a fake CIA memo Cite in the WaPo, register to read) that implicated Valerie Plame in getting her husband the Niger gig. That is a conspiracy worth worrying about.
There’s already the Armed Forces Radio and Television Network, isn’t there? How is this any different?
The broadcasts changed after this news had been reported - or rather, they changed as soon as it had been discovered…that the other nest had a good store of seeds…This is how the second one went:
A. We are more numerous than they are, therefore we have a right to their mash.
B. They are more numerous than we are, therefore they are wickedly trying to steal their mash.
C. We are a mighty race and have a natural right to subjugate their puny one.
D. They are a mighty race and are unnaturally trying to subjugate our inoffensive race.
E. We must attack them in self-defence.
F. They are attacking us by defending themselves.
G. If we do not attack them today, they will attack us tomorrow.
H. In any case we are not attacking them at all. We are offering them incalculable benefits.
After the second kind of address, the religious services began.
T. H. White, The Sword In The Stone
That’s the sort of thing I’ve seen on it with my DVB receiver.
Honestly, I have no idea what some people expect of media coverage of wars.
In 1991, there was the pool coverage, where reporters were spoon fed crap hundreds of miles from the front. The media and fellow liberals complained, rightly, in my estimation, that reporters had no chance to get the real story from the field.
So then in 2003, the Pentagon starts embedding reporters in front-line units. A lot of anti-war types complained. (I’m anti-war, but did not complain.) Why? I don’t have a clue.
There have also been unembedded reporters who have been roving around Iraq, but the miltiary has said, fine, you’re on your own, we’re not going to help you if you’re not embedded. The same anti-war people complained. Why? I have no idea.
Now, it appears that the DOD will get it’s Pentagon channel broadcast on Dish TV. I’ve seen the Pentagon channel, and I can’t imagine ANYONE watching it: pro-war, anti-war, no war, all war. It’s boring. It’s CSPAN done with military inefficiency. This channel is going to challenge the news as presented on CNN, MSNBC, or Fox. The only ratings battle this channel is going to have is with the public access stations on your cable system. The stories are formulized like this: Link.
Why I Serve: K-9 Couple Watches for Danger
Illinois Upholds Longstanding Valentine’s Day Tradition
New Polish Commander Heads Central South Division
Why I Serve: General Says Teamwork Makes Military Appealing
If you’re still awake after those, then it also has news stories that are pretty much quotes from military or Administration officials:
Successful Elections Deal Blow to Terrorists (according to a senior military officer)
President Praises Poland for Help in Iraq War
‘Amazing’ Things Happening in Iraq, Rumsfeld Says
I really see no difference between these “stories” and White House news briefings that are carried on CSPAN. Are you folks outraged when CSPAN carries the White House press conference?
Like I said…Command Information written with a broadcast style guide.
Preach it reverend! I second that.