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The pentagon now has a news channel.
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Pentagon to broadcast to millions of U.S. homes
The U.S. military is to beam its own news coverage to millions of Americans.
Moving on from its phase of embedding journalists, or as some would say, 'a policy of restricting and controlling the flow of information,' the Pentagon will now produce and disseminate the news itself. It will be beamed to the public at no charge. The service will emanate from what is known as the Pentagon Channel, an internal public relations television unit within the Department of Defense. It was set up nine months ago.
The government-run TV service will be channeled to the public through EchoStar Communication's Dish Network which will offer the Pentagon Channel to its more than 11 million viewers on a no-cost basis. Programming will appear on the network's public interest channels and will operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/
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Pentagon to broadcast to millions of U.S. homes
The U.S. military is to beam its own news coverage to millions of Americans.
Moving on from its phase of embedding journalists, or as some would say, 'a policy of restricting and controlling the flow of information,' the Pentagon will now produce and disseminate the news itself. It will be beamed to the public at no charge. The service will emanate from what is known as the Pentagon Channel, an internal public relations television unit within the Department of Defense. It was set up nine months ago.
The government-run TV service will be channeled to the public through EchoStar Communication's Dish Network which will offer the Pentagon Channel to its more than 11 million viewers on a no-cost basis. Programming will appear on the network's public interest channels and will operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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Re: Big Brother Channel Online
Fri, February 11, 2005 - 12:26 PMto bad satellite sucks. -
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Re: Big Brother Channel Online
Fri, February 11, 2005 - 1:38 PM
This is nothing new. The Armed Forces Network? has been around since like WW2. Longer than Radio Free Europe probably. You can watch the TV shows that they broadcast to U.S naval vessels on cable. Funny they're like amatuer cable. Anyway that's how many Germans, Koreans, Vietnamese, Phillipinos and others have learned English. I don't get the feed on DSS so perhaps they've revamped the whole thing to make it look fresher.
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Re: Big Brother Channel Online
Fri, February 11, 2005 - 3:58 PMI don't think that was the point though, I think the significance of the article was that these feeds would be available to millions more people in the form of an actual network that they promoted like Fox News.
Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong but they don't actually do that yet do they? -
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Re: Big Brother Channel Online
Fri, February 11, 2005 - 5:20 PM
No not to my knowledge. It sounds like they're taking their exsisting Armed Forces Network, remodeling it, and using it as a much upgraded propaganda tool. AFN is piped to wherever we have bases but I don't know if they ever issued program listings to the locals. They just started an all-military channel on Discovery Network as well.
Whatever it is, it'll be "happy Johnny-soldier-guy who does kind things for the local kids" stupid human interest stories. I expect there will be little blood and gore. We wouldn't want that stray-bomb that caused "collateral damage" and splattered noncombatants all over the place to make the news.
Swaz
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