REPORTERS VS. PENTAGON

Arnett states that news reporters, during the Persian Gulf War, were “no match for the propaganda machine of the U.S. Central Command and the Pentagon.” Alas this is true in a general sense whose implications far transcend this particular instance.

With diabolical skill and no shortage of funds in its bloated budgets, the Pentagon steadily spews self-serving propaganda intended above all else to protect excessive military spending from the common sense of an informed citizenry.

HAROLD WILLENS

LOS ANGELES