{"id":878,"date":"2006-09-01T08:55:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-01T08:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/astrologicalmusings\/2006\/09\/pentagon-moves-toward-monitori.html"},"modified":"2006-09-01T08:55:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-01T08:55:00","slug":"pentagon-moves-toward-monitori","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/astrologicalmusings\/2006\/09\/pentagon-moves-toward-monitori.html","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon Moves Toward Monitoring Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I may be wrong, but &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/news.moneycentral.msn.com\/provider\/providerarticle.asp?feed=AP&amp;Date=20060831&amp;ID=5987852\">monitoring media<\/a>&#8221; to me sounds like a lot like censorship. Is this the kind of free democracy we&#8217;re trying to spread to the middle east?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>WASHINGTON (AP) &#8211; The U.S. command in Baghdad is seeking bidders for a two-year, $20 million public relations contract that calls for monitoring the tone of Iraq news stories filed by U.S. and foreign media.<\/p>\n<p>Proposals, due Sept. 6, ask companies to show how they&#8217;ll &#8220;provide continuous monitoring and near-real time reporting of Iraqi, pan-Arabic, international, and U.S. media,&#8221; according to the solicitation issued last week.<\/p>\n<p>Contractors also will be evaluated on how they will provide analytical reports and customized briefings to the military, &#8220;including, but not limited to tone (positive, neutral, negative) and scope of media coverage.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What a way to kick off the Saturn\/Neptune opposition, with the Pentagon, a governmental body representing Saturn in Leo, engaging in deceptive practices to create a Neptunian illusion of good news about the war. This could backfire on them, since <a href=\"http:\/\/astrodynamics.blogspot.com\/2006\/08\/saturnneptune-history-lesson.html\">previous Saturn\/Neptune oppositions <\/a>have served to expose government deception rather than help to conceal it. <\/p>\n<p>The next few months will be VERY interesting!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I may be wrong, but &#8220;monitoring media&#8221; to me sounds like a lot like censorship. Is this the kind of free democracy we&#8217;re trying to spread to the middle east? WASHINGTON (AP) &#8211; The U.S. command in Baghdad is seeking bidders for a two-year, $20 million public relations contract that calls for monitoring the tone&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":328,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Pentagon Moves Toward Monitoring Media - Astrological Musings<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/astrologicalmusings\/2006\/09\/pentagon-moves-toward-monitori.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pentagon Moves Toward Monitoring Media - Astrological Musings\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I may be wrong, but &#8220;monitoring media&#8221; to me sounds like a lot like censorship. 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