Monday, December 27, 2004
Cable News Nets Get Competition on the War Front from the Pentagon "News" Channel
Source: World Peace Herald It seems the Pentagon has created it's very own 24-hour news channel. Created with $6 million in congressional funds, (taxpayer money) the Pentagon Channel earlier this year began airing full coverage of defense press conferences and other programming targeted at U.S. troops.
"We carry all of the briefings from start to finish with no editorial content," said Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs Allison Barber. "We realized that we didn't have a good way to provide news here in the States," said Miss Barber, adding that major commercial networks often ignore certain troop-sensitive stories, such as press conferences on vaccines or personnel changes.
# posted by ATN @ 12:21 PM 
