"It's not exactly every day that the Pentagon warns military personnel to
stay away from Fox News." No, indeed not, one would think. But, according to Vivienne Walt with Time Magazine, that's what happened. I subscribe to Declan McCullagh's Politech newsletter--which might be a good idea for you if you're interested in the confluence of politics and technology, here's the link. In one of today's items from Politech was the first couple of graph's and a link to a hoot of an article in Time. I think you will get a kick--a frightening one, actually--out of it.
Saturday, May. 08, 2004
It's not exactly every day that the Pentagon warns military personnel to
stay away from Fox News. But that's exactly what some hopeful soul at
the Department of Defense instructed, in a memo intended to forbid
Pentagon staff reading a copy of the Taguba report detailing abuse of
detainees at prisons in Iraq that had been posted at the Fox News web site.
An email to Pentagon staff marked "URGENT IT (Information Technology)
BULLETIN: Taguba Report" orders employees not to read or download the
Taguba report at Fox News, on the grounds that the document is
classified. It also orders them not to discuss the matter with friends
or family members. The emailed memo was leaked to TIME by a senior U.S.
civilian official in Baghdad, who did not hide his disdain for the
"factotums" in the Pentagon. "I do wonder how incredibly stupid some
people in the Pentagon are," he emailed TIME. "Not only are they drawing
everyone's attention to the report -- and where it can be seen -- but
attempting to muzzle people never works."
