[CLUE-Talk] The military takes a cue from Microsoft

[Jed S. Baer]

On 11 Oct 2003 09:03:59 -0600
"Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier" <jzb at dissociatedpress.net> wrote:

> I'm sure that just about everyone on this list has heard of
> "astroturfing" -- sending out fake letters or having real people send
> form letters with exactly the same message, usually instigated by a PR
> firm, in an attempt to create the illusion of popular, grass-roots
> support. (Hence, astroturf.)
...
> Now, the military is doing it too:
> http://www.dissociatedpress.org/article.pl?sid=03/10/11/1458202&mode=thread
...
> When you hear about things like this, it really brings into question
> whether you can trust anything coming from the Bush administration. 

Or, maybe not.

  http://www.instapundit.com/archives/011955.php

jed
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