The websites suggest a pattern of Pentagon efforts to promote its agenda by disseminating information through what appear to be independent outlets, says Marvin Kalb, a fellow at Harvard University's Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. "This is deliberate deception, and it's bad ... (because) it weakens the image of journalism as an objective bystander" Kalb says, noting that many of the Pentagon's intended audiences live in a world where they expect the government to control their news. Full Article at RedOrbit