Publicity By AK-47 II

Take a moment to read my first post by this title, below. Then consider this, from NYT's coverage of $50gate:

The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee summoned top Pentagon officials to a closed-door session on Capitol Hill on Friday to explain a reported secret military campaign in Iraq to plant paid propaganda in the Iraqi news media. ...

At a briefing with reporters, the White House spokesman, Scott McClellan, responded to a barrage of questions about the program, which military contractors and officials said also pays friendly Iraqi journalists with monthly stipends.

Politicians will pontificate; journalists travel in wolfpacks. And heaven forbid if any news of significance should see the light of day.