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<\/a>Editor & Publisher Staff<\/p>\n

The Federal Communications Commission has announced that it will investigate a Department of Defense propaganda program to determine whether news networks or military analysts violated the Communications Act of 1934 and FCC rules.

Earlier this year, The New York Times reported that a Department of Defense program had ex-military officers presenting the Bush administration’s position on the War on Terror as objective analysis on major television news programs and 24-hour cable news networks. Congresswoman Rosa L. DeLauro and Congressman John Dingell wrote to the FCC to investigate allegations that the news networks and the analysts failed to disclose the ex-military officers’ ties to the Pentagon — and if that violated sponsorship identification requirements in the Communications Act. “Given the revelations in the [New York Times] article, had the FCC not heeded our request for an investigation, it would have raised serious questions about their oversight capabilities. I am pleased with today’s news, but will continue to monitor the situation to ensure the FCC fully investigates the networks in addition to the analysts,”\u009d DeLauro said in a
statement Tuesday.

According to the Times report, Department of Defense documents described the analysts as “message force multipliers”\u009d instructed to deliver “administration themes and messages”\u009d to the public “in the form of their own opinions.”\u009d The report found that these analysts — who The Times called “a media Trojan horse”\u009d for the administration — were encouraged to convey specific Defense Department talking points to the public, even when they suspected the information could be exaggerated or false. <\/font>
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