Propaganda Is A Booming Business
The Pentagon is offering a $20 million, two year contract for a company to monitor US news sources coverage of Iraq and evaluate how stories are covered, Contractors are supposed to then suggest a few public relations events per month such as news conferences or speeches.
U.S. military leaders in Baghdad have put out for bid a two-year, $20 million public relations contract that calls for extensive monitoring of U.S. and Middle Eastern media in an effort to promote more positive coverage of news from Iraq.
The contract calls for assembling a database of selected news stories and assessing their tone as part of a program to provide "public relations products" that would improve coverage of the military command's performance, according to a statement of work attached to the proposal.
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