Leaked files indicate U.S. pays Afghan media to run friendly stories

July 29, 2010 by legitgov

Leaked files indicate U.S. pays Afghan media to run friendly stories --Other reports show U.S. military personnel apparently referring to Afghan reporters as 'our journalists' and directing them in how to do their jobs. 27 Jul 2010 Buried among the 92,000 classified documents released Sunday by WikiLeaks is some intriguing evidence that the U.S. military in Afghanistan has adopted a PR strategy that got it into trouble in Iraq: paying local media outlets to run friendly stories. Several reports from Army psychological operations units and provincial reconstruction teams (also known as PRTs, civilian-military hybrids tasked with rebuilding Afghanistan) show that local Afghan radio stations were under contract to air content produced by the United States.