Pentagon to broadcast to millions of U.S. homes

Big News ^ | 2/9/05

[boxerblues]

Pretty sure its the same as just before the New Year they were touting the change over

[Strutt9]

You could be correct. Don't watch much TV. Always surprised when a new channel suddenly is added during my channel surfing.

[BlessedBeGod]

You mean Comcast won't have it? :-(

[QQQQQ]

I would like to urge everyone to ask your cable or satellite provider to add the Pentagon channel and tell them, that otherwise you'll switch to Echostar, which is carrying it.

I just sent an e-mail to my cable company, and included an excerpt of the article and the link.

I think if a lot of customers would do this, more cable and satellite networks would decide to carry it.

[QQQQQ]

Write to DirecTV and ask them to carry it and be sure to tell them, that their competitor, EchoStar is carrying it and you consider switching.

[onedoug]

You may have a point there. Yet given the panoply of tax supported pork which I can do little or nothing about, I'd rather have this in some balance.

The lesser of evils, I guess.

[devane617]

I already have the Pentagon Channel on DISH network. It has been available about a month now. Interesting to watch.

[areafiftyone]

I will. I have Time Warner Cable.

[perfect stranger]

PentagonChannel.mil

[RightWhale]

Hmm. What's this? Maybe they will have polls now and then. What was your favorite invasion plan of the 20th century? Should Iran be neutralized this year or wait until they attack Israel? Polls like that.

[doug from upland]

The Pentagon has the right to broadcast. People can determine whether it is propaganda or useful information. The free market at work.

[gentlestrength]

I don't see how we can keep necessary secrets secret by constantly making everything public. We're elevating public knowledge above public defense.

[WomanBiologist]

The Pentagon Channel is quite interesting. I got to see it for over a week when I was visiting my best friend in Germany (her husband's in the army). It was a welcome relief from the BBC channel! A nice way to obtain positive stories about the military without the negative spin that the MSM likes to include with every story.

[yldstrk]

That's a darn good idea.

[yldstrk]

Don't forget about that General that raised all the liberals hackles by saying he liked to brawl! He'd be an awesome commentator!

[fight_truth_decay]

http://pentagonchannel.feedroom.com/iframeset.jsp?ord=508426

Streaming 24 hours a day

For Instance: Up Armored Vehicles...
Military officials say by next week
every vehicle that leaves its base in
Iraq will be wearing armor

I have a dial up modem and works ok.

[MD_Willington_1976]

Telescreen ? Order of the day? prolefeed?

The instrument (the telescreen, it was called) could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely.

The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it, moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live -- did live, from habit that became instinct -- in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.