VITAMEDIAS
Press Isn't Asking Right Questions About Iraq: Bush administration spokesmen have made several cases for waging war against Iraq, and the U.S. press has tended to present all those cases to the public as if they were gospel. Does this mean that administration arguments are indisputable? Or does it mean that the right questions have not been asked often or loudly enough?
Pentagon Adds 100 More Slots for Reporters: The Pentagon is offering at least 100 more slots for journalists to be embedded with troops in the Persian Gulf this week, according to Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman, bringing the number of newspeople traveling with military units to more than 600.
Movie men add special effects to media war: The Pentagon has enlisted Hollywood to help to present its daily briefings to the world.
Fresh from the latest Michael Douglas film, one of Tinseltown’s top art directors has been hired to create a $200,000 (£125,000) set for General Tommy Franks and other American commanders to give daily updates.
George Allison, 43, who has designed White House backdrops for President Bush and worked with the illusionist David Blaine, has been flown into the US Central Command base in Qatar as part of a reputed $1 million (£625,000) conversion of a storage hangar into a high-tech hub for the international media.