Time Warner Cable to Launch Pentagon Channel

[bigluckyfeet]

Time Warner Cable to Launch Pentagon Channel http://media.aoltimewarner.com/media/press_view.cfm?release_num=55254122



STAMFORD, CT and ALEXANDRIA, VA - Time Warner Cable announced today it will begin rolling out the Pentagon Channel, the Defense Department's news and information network for the military, this month. The Pentagon Channel, which previously existed as an information channel within the Pentagon and on military bases, will now be distributed 24 hours a day, seven days a week to all of Time Warner Cable's digital television customers.

"Time Warner Cable serves consumers all across the country and many of our customers have a personal stake in the military," said Lynn Yaeger Time Warner Cable Executive Vice President for Corporate Affairs. "The Pentagon Channel will be especially appreciated by military service members and their families who live on or near the 26 military bases we service in our footprint including Fort Bragg and Fort Hood."

The Pentagon Channel will provide Time Warner Cable digital customers with Department of Defense news with top-of-the-hour updates, broadcasts of the flagship television news magazine programs from each of the services and Department of Defense news briefings from the Pentagon and around the world. Additionally, the network will include appointment viewing with "Around the Services," a look at what's going on at each branch of the military, "Studio Five," showcasing conversations with Department of Defense leaders, and "Focus on the Force," which highlights military missions such as those in Iraq and Afghanistan.More

[NMDemDist2]

1. hmm is this a good thing or just another "propaganda" channel

:argh:

[renegade000]

2. judging by the direction CNN is going

i'd go with the latter

[bobthedrummer]

3. Ike did warn US about this.

It reminds me of the military private-enterprise form of government installed by the CIA for Ford Motor Company in Indonesia and helped by manufacturing an Indonesian "elite" at Harvard University.

Check it out.
http://www.cia-on-campus.org/internat/indo.html

We are in the throes of an expansionistic military imperialism (PNAC) that has no place in an American, or any other, democracy.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

4. ok start naming the programs

paul wolfowitz - unfiltered

late night with doug feith

crossfire - literally

name that weapons system

over - priced is right

edit more:

this old howitzer

everybody loves raytheon

saturday night at the maneuvers

[Junkdrawer]

5. help me.... help me......

[ILeft]

6. "DoD Time Warner"... kind of like MSNBC

Finally, competition for FOX.

[sandnsea]

7. Good? Bad?

I don't know!!! Yikes!!! It would be nice to keep up with what these jokers are doing. But my instincts tell me 24/7 rah rah for the military is not going to be good. :scared: