[Cannoneer No. 4]

yeah, that was discussed quite a bit at the Milblog Conference.

[PsyOp]

4) The military has failed to recognize and maximize the media. It is the middleman. This middleman's distribution ability reaches the greater audience/customer base that it wishes to influence (I do not simply mean Americans, either). The Military on its own cannot hope to reach this audience, not even through maximizing its "niche market" of bloggers, military magazines and "friendly" media, though it is a place to start rebuilding.

Picked this off of your blog. It seems to me that short of forcing the press to run stories, there is little that can be done by the military. They constantly try to steer the press towards the positive stories, but the press treats anything Army Information folks says as nothing less suspect military propaganda.

Let them interview everyone in a batallion where re-ups are nearly 100% in-country, and they will quote the most outrageous statements of the one or two disgruntled pvt's as if they spoke for everyone.

What more could be done, other than trying media hacks for sedition?