“Hiring a block of bloggers to verbally attack a specific person or promote a specific message may be worth considering,” write the report’s co-authors, James Kinniburgh and Dororthy Denning…. Denning, a professor at Naval Postgraduate School, adds in an e-mail, “I got some positive feedback from people who read the article, but I don’t know if it led to anything.”Now, there's no evidence they ever actually followed through on this. And there are plenty of crazy wingers ready to attack anyone they're pointed at without being paid. But on the other hand, given the hiring of journalists and columnists by the administration, and the Pentagon's own interests in the media war, it wouldn't be surprising if they had.
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