US Psywar Teams Plant Stories in “Free Iraqi Press”

Now the LA Times commits journalism also.

As part of a psychological operations campaign that has intensified over the past year, one of the military officials said that the task force also has purchased an Iraqi newspaper and taken control of a radio station, and is using the outlets to channel pro-American messages to the Iraqi public. Neither is identified as a military mouthpiece.

The official would not disclose which newspaper and radio station are under U.S. control, saying that naming the organizations would put their employees at risk of insurgent attacks.

And now of course, they are at great risk to insurgent attacks. And every single radio station and newspaper who reports a positive story about US troops, no matter how perfectly true, is suspect as is the report.