Military Report: Secretly 'Recruit or Hire Bloggers'

Military Report: Secretly 'Recruit or Hire Bloggers'

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A study, written for U.S. Special Operations Command, suggested "clandestinely recruiting or hiring prominent bloggers."

Since the start of the Iraq war, there's been a raucous debate in military circles over how to handle blogs -- and the servicemembers who want to keep them. One faction sees blogs as security risks, and a collective waste of troops' time. The other (which includes top officers, like Gen. David Petraeus and Lt. Gen. William Caldwell) considers blogs to be a valuable source of information, and a way for ordinary troops to shape opinions, both at home and abroad.

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So anyone at ATS working for the Military as a paid blogger. I figured it was more the job of spooks to hire bloggers for propaganda but I guess each branch of the government wants to have there own propaganda machines anymore.

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