Information Operations

I don't understant how the New York Times can get all indignant that the US military has paid to get pro-American stories into the Iraqi press.

After all, the Times prints lots of anti-American stories:

[The New York Times] smeared female interrogators at Guantanamo Bay as "sex workers," sympathetically portrayed military deserters as "un-volunteers," apologized for terror suspects and illegal aliens at every turn, enabled the Bush Derangement Syndrome-driven crusade of the lying Joe Wilson, and recklessly endangered national security by publishing illegally obtained information about classified counterterrorism programs.

I assume the NYT pays their reporters. If they do it for free I'll be really upset.