clear channel, schmear channel, want your propaganda? go to the DISH Network!

ah, oh friends of television, we now can raise the spectre of wonderous satellite propaganda everywhere once again! no longer reserved for those old school World War II posters, we can now lick our chops at the all-pentagon, all-the-time channel! check it out:

"DISH Network has just announced that under the guise of public interest programming it is adding to its broadcast lineup a 24/7 channel produced by the U.S. Department of Defense that previously was aimed only at U.S. military personnel.

Under U.S. law, the federal government is banned from producing propaganda aimed at influencing the American people. Despite this ban, the television channel which is one hundred percent controlled by the Pentagon, will beam highly produced daily news programs promoting the interests of the Pentagon and paid for by U.S. tax payers into millions of American homes."

I for one, signed the petition against this monstrosity.