CENTCOM/Media outreach
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25 July 2010 - The immediate purpose of this page is to catalogue a series of files, released by US Army CENTCOM in response to an FOI request and posted on Cryptome on 24 July 2010. [1] They pertain to "CENTCOM Interactions with Community and Media Outreach" through 2008. However, it's subject scope is larger than the immediate subject of these files and so needs to be expanded - Help Please
Contents
The Concept of "Media Outreach"
Effectively Newspeak for making certain that the "Official Narrative" is propagated with all the resources necessary to ensure that it prevails. It has become a more acceptable (trendy, obfuscatory??) term than, for example, "Propaganda" and "Public Relations" which are its antecedents.
The CENTCOM Media Outreach files
The following files relate to US Army CENTCOM conference calls with military bloggers about operations in Iraq through 2008. they were released under FOI legislative provisions in July 2010 and posted on Cryptome on 24 July 2010. [1]
Brief Biographies of US Army Participants
- Brigadier General Robert H Holmes - File:BG R Holmes Bio.pdf
- Colonel Tom James - File:Col Tom James Bio.pdf
- Colonel Philip Battaglia - File:Col P Battaglia Bio.pdf
Blogger Participants and Biographies
- Blogger Biographies - File:Blogger Bios.pdf
- Blogger Participants part 1 - File:Blogger Participants 1.pdf
- Blogger Participants part 2 - File:Blogger Participants 2.pdf
- Blogger Participants part 3 - File:Blogger Participants 3.pdf
Blogger Round Table and Conference Call Transcripts
- Round Table 1 - File:Blogger Roundtable 28 Aug 08.pdf
- Round Table 1 - File:Blogger Roundtable 10 Sep 08.pdf
- Round Table 1 - File:Blogger Roundtable 3 Sep 08.pdf
US Army Briefing Papers
- Conference Calls - File:Blogger conference calls.pdf
- Discussion Topics - File:Blogger discussion topics.pdf
- Iraqi Security Forces - File:Iraqi Security Forces.pdf
- Military Bloggers Engagement - File:Military Bloggers Engagement.pdf
