The Pentagon Channel? No, please make it go away!
Published by GabeMac on 10 Apr 2006 at 2:28 pm.
7 Comments.
Filed under Vlog News.
My worst fears are being realised. The Pentagon channel is no hoax. A vlog being done by the Pentagon containing a line-up of, among others:
* “Around the Services in Brief,” the daily military news and information show;
* “RECON,” an in-depth look at real-world military operations, missions and events; and
* “Around the Services Reloaded,” a weekly round-up of news and information important to servicemembers stationed around the world.
“We work hard to communicate with the men and women of the department around the world,” Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld said. “I am pleased that we are using video casting and other increasingly important technologies to reach our global audience with all the news and information available on the Pentagon Channel.” Right. Information that has been properly certified by the U.S. military. They’ve invaded our news networks, now they are invading our feeds. I prefer the vlogs and podcasts from the soldiers out on the field giving the REAL stories, and not the pentagon P.R. train.
Hey Veoh, fireant and other aggregators, how about hijacking their feeds and giving them insanefilms.com enclosures instead? Now that would be awesome.
Anne Walk on 10 Apr 2006 at 4:17 pm: 1
gee. it all makes sense now. i’ve been seeing a ton of u.s military propaganda vids…i mean documentaries coming through the archive in the past couple of weeks.
hmmm….mashups anyone?
anne
jonny goldstein on 10 Apr 2006 at 4:41 pm: 2
I’m as antiwar as the next guy, but I’ve got no problem with them having a videoblog. It just shows that it’s a useful medium.
dave on 10 Apr 2006 at 5:28 pm: 3
I just made a pentagon channel remix group on eyespot:
Pentagon remix
Something like keepvid might make those flash clips remixable.
dave on 10 Apr 2006 at 5:31 pm: 4
Here’s the correct link
Pentagon Remixes for real this time
Mark on 12 Apr 2006 at 4:03 am: 5
Let’s see by comment the Pentagon has nothing honest to say and by implication only those soldiers who disagree with the Pentagon are right and deserve to be heard… That sounds open-minded to me, or am I missing something here?
Danny Maas on 23 Apr 2006 at 8:57 am: 6
I see the Pentagon vlog as a good thing. Let’s not forget that one of the reasons we love vlogging (or should love it) is that it allows anybody to express ideas, beliefs, opinions, and information. We hate it when ideas are censored or filtered, so let’s allow our governments the same rights. I’d rather see us focusing on developing our media and informaton literacy skills so we can make those judgments ourselves and teach our children to make those judgments for themselves.
jim on 29 May 2006 at 2:28 pm: 7
The channel is an internal information channel. It is not intended for civilians…or the paranoid.