Original NYT Story Here.

Additional Story Here.

The New York Times has caught up to the rest of the planet by exposing the level of deceit that Americans are subject to on a daily basis. This time, it turns out that they’ve exposed a wide array of ‘analysts’ that were paid off by the Pentagon to make statements in favour of military actions in the Middle East and elsewhere.

… But even uglier, if that is possible, is the revelation that these corrupted military analysts were personally involved in helping companies win military contracts. Several of these ‘honorable’ soldiers held senior positions with contractors that gave them direct responsibility for winning new Pentagon business. Others held board positions with military firms and had responsibilities involving government business, while several of the ‘analysts’ were defense industry lobbyists.

Stories like this make you wonder just how much of the information delivered by mainstream media is legit.

Stories like this also help confirm my staunch support for Net Neutrality becuase it reminds us all that without a reasonable dialogue between reasonable, unbiased people, we aren’t living in a democracy.