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| Leaked files indicate U.S. pays Afghan media to run friendly stories |
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| International |
| Thursday, 29 July 2010 18:28 |
 Buried among the 77,000 classified military documents released by WikiLeaks is evidence the U.S. military paid Afghan media outlets to run friendly stories. Reports from Army psychological operations units and PRT or provincial reconstruction teams showed local Afghan radio stations were under contract to air content produced by the US. Other reports showed U.S. military personnel referring to Afghan reporters as "our journalists" and telling them how to do their jobs. Collaboration between local media and U.S. forces has been a headache for the Pentagon in the past: In 2005, a Pentagon contractor was caught paying Iraqi newspapers to run stories written by US soldiers, causing the US considerable embarrassment. In one leaked document a PRT member reported delivering "12 hours of PSYOP Radio Content Programming" to two radio stations, paying one of them $3,900 for so-called “Radio Content Programming air time."Source |
