Why the news media should be a bit more skeptical of "authority figures"

From the Los Angeles Times:PR Meets Psy-Ops in War on Terror

"Officials at the Pentagon and other U.S. national security agencies said the CNN incident was not an isolated feint — the type used throughout history by armies to deceive their enemies — but part of a broad effort underway within the Bush administration to use information to its advantage in the war on terrorism."