Iraqi media relations

Sminklemeyer's take on the whole "US paid for and planted stories in Iraqi newspaper" scandal:

Almost every word spoken by a professional to the media comes from a strategic platform that benefits their position.So with that being said, it’s become known that we are paying to place articles in Iraqi newspapers. According to this article, politicians are gravely concerned. I wonder if they were gravely concerned about the paid VIOXX articles in Newsweek.

The rest of the post provides interesting insight from someone who was actually in Iraq, and worked together with the Iraqi media.