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As more journalists seek permission to accompany U.S. forces engaged in escalating military operations in Afghanistan, many of them could be screened by a controversial Washington-based public relations firm contracted by the Pentagon to determine whether their past coverage has portrayed the U.S. military in a positive light. U.S. public affairs officials in Afghanistan acknowledged to Stars and Stripes that any reporter seeking to embed with U.S. forces is subject to a background profile by The Rendon Group, which gained notoriety in the run-up to the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq for its work helping to create the Iraqi National Congress.
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Journalists’ recent work examined before embeds | Stars and Stripes
Interesting story about who decides who can report the news. And as the American Conservative notes — the fact that its Stars & Stripes breaking this, rather than a mainstream media pub, makes it harder for the right to dismiss this as just elite media underminining military ops.
