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How Revisionist Reporting Hurts Everyone

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Published: Thursday, December 15th, 2011

Media lapdogs are marked by stenographic tendencies, sympathetic frames and a reliance on industry jargon. Politico’s latest report about Congressional Republicans working to undo looming defense cuts meets all three criteria. The piece is accurately headlined “GOP eager to scuttle defense cuts,” and nowhere in the article is any reference to data disputing the Republicans’ [...]

Panetta Starts Singing Contractors’ Tune After Closed-Door Meeting

By Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe
Published: Friday, September 16th, 2011

Well, that didn’t take very long. Two days ago, while representatives of war profiteers were on the Hill trying to push elected officials to protect their profit margins from the deficit committee, heads of the war industry met in a closed-door meeting with Defense Secretary Panetta. The next day, the war contractors held a press [...]

The War Industry: Bad Job Creators, Bad Bosses, Bad Stewards of Tax Dollars

By Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe
Published: Wednesday, September 14th, 2011

On Tuesday, the military contractors behind the “Second To None” campaign pleaded “no comment” to our War Costs campaign’s full-page Politico ad exposing the economic damage caused by massive war budgets. The same day, they announced a press conference and the upcoming launch of a national campaign to scare people about job losses if we [...]

Corrupt Contractors Make Their Move on the Deficit Committee

By Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe
Published: Monday, September 12th, 2011

The new deficit commission will hold its first substantive meeting on Tuesday, and the military contractors will be out in force to protect their profits. They’ll be working to cash in on hundreds millions of dollars in campaign donations and lobbying spending, and they’ll deploy their favorite (and bogus) “jobs” spin. But members of the [...]

The War Budget Is Burning Down Our Economy

By Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe
Published: Thursday, September 8th, 2011

President Obama will talk jobs tonight. Good. That’s what we should have been talking about all year. Here’s all thirty-five words of our suggested script for the speech: “Good evening. To get Americans working again, we must cut our massive war budget and find better ways to spend that money. Thank you, God bless you, [...]

193,000 Jobs: The true cost of the wasted $60 billion in Iraq/Afghanistan

By Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe
Published: Friday, September 2nd, 2011

193,000 jobs. That’s what we could have created, at minimum, for the money that war contractors wasted in Afghanistan and Iraq. The Associated Press reported on Wednesday that “as $60 billion in U.S. funds has been lost to waste and fraud in Iraq and Afghanistan over the past decade through lax oversight of contractors, poor [...]