The Military’s Media Whores: On Ethics, Power, Rapport and Responsibility
• Maximilian ForteThe Pentagon has perhaps the single largest public relations apparatus on earth – $4.7 billion on P.R. in 2009 alone and employing 27,000 people, a staff nearly as large as the 30,000-person State Department – but is that really enough to ensure posi
4.7 billion, wow. And we're kicking their butts for pennies. Notch one more up for the private sector, I guess. It's fascinating watching the death-throes of a modern-day dinosaur. Sad and pathetic, but fascinating.