Finally!
by ChrisJanuary 12th, 2006 2:08 pm
As many of you are well aware, I’m just about as lazy a lazy bastard as you’ll ever find. It’s a wonder I manage to bathe myself let alone hold a steady job. So you can imagine the wave of joy that swept over me when I learned that the Army is planning to provide propaganda to bloggers free of charge. You read that right. FREE!
Word comes from RL that the Army has hired PR firm Hass MS&L of Detroit to offer “exclusive editorial content” to blogs willing to run government propaganda.
“The Army believes that military blogs are a valuable medium for reaching out,” account executive Charlie Kondek has written to a number of pro-military blogs in a January 6 Email.
“To that end, the Army plans to offer you and selected bloggers exclusive editorial content on a few issues you’re likely to be interested in,” Kondek says. The Email has been mentioned in Black Five, One Hand Clapping and Fuzzilicious Thinking.
I’m not sure I know what the think of this. Military families are increasingly relying on soldier blogs and support networks based on blogs to keep in touch, and maybe this is an innocuous way for the Army to push its “public affairs” content to the new medium.
But the “content” under discussion, an Army public affairs officer tells me, is not the nitty gritty of deployments and living conditions overseas. It is planned to be an official counter to the perceived unwillingness of the mainstream media to report the “good news” from Iraq and the war on terror.
I was getting sick of sticking to my principals anyway. It’s just so much work and it bores the shit out of the neighbors. You know what be extra special super duper great? If the army would include a George Bush action figure with Kung Fu grip with every blogger propaganda packet. All the kids at my cubicle farm would be so jealous.
Via The Poor Man
