Blogs Posts on "Brad Jacobson"

Exclusive: Pentagon pursuing new investigation into Bush propaganda program by Scholars & Rogues on Nov 5, 2009The Pentagon’s Office of Inspector General is conducting a new investigation into a covert Bush administration Defense Department program that used retired military analysts to produce positive wartime news coverage.

Exclusive: Pentagon’s domestic propaganda program may not have been terminated by Scholars & Rogues on Oct 29, 2009Pentagon officials won't confirm Bush propaganda program ended The covert Bush administration program that used retired military analysts to generate favorable wartime news coverage may not have been terminated, Raw Story has found.

GRITtv: Maintaining Bush's Propaganda Program? by Gurl About Town on Oct 28, 2009Under George W. Bush, the Pentagon used retired military analysts to produce positive wartime news coverage. The story was broken by the New York Times, and reporter David Barstow won a Pulitzer for his work. Brad Jacobson, investigative journalist w...

Pentagon used psychological operation on US public, documents show by Scholars & Rogues on Oct 21, 2009A months-long review of documents and interviews with Pentagon personnel has revealed that the Bush Administration's military analyst program -- aimed at selling the Iraq war to the American people -- operated through a secretive collaboration bet...

Gene Randall ‘Reporting,’ Inc. by Scholars & Rogues on Jun 17, 2009My article published yesterday in Columbia Journalism Review: Former CNN correspondent-turned-PR consultant Gene Randall’s video “report” for oil giant Chevron might be unprecedented for how it blurred the line between public relations and j...

Interview with Greg Mitchell, Editor of ‘Editor & Publisher’ by Scholars & Rogues on May 6, 2009Greg Mitchell, Editor of 'Editor and Publisher' magazine, recently spoke with MediaBloodhound from his Lower East Side Manhattan office at E&P. In addition to the 2008 campaign, topics ranged from the dire state of the newspaper industry and its...

Officials say feds involved in Nevada ACORN raid by Scholars & Rogues on Mar 18, 2009Part of the reason I've been off the radar here for so long -- my latest investigative report for Raw Story: Federal agencies were involved in the decision to raid the office of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) in...