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{ 2006 08 31 }

US military to pay $20 million for "more positive news" from Iraq

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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.

The request for bids comes at a time when Bush administration officials are publicly criticizing media coverage of the war in Iraq.

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Positive news? From Iraq? Isn't this becoming sort of miracle?

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Posted by Haitham Sabbah on Thursday, August 31, 2006, at 10:42 pm. Filed under Iraq, Media, War. Tagged , , . Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed. Comments are closed, but you can trackback from your blog.

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  1. kimmy | September 1, 2006 at 1:20 am | Permalink

    I would accept $20 mil for 2 years of bull to lie for Bush!