The U.S. army admitted in Afghanistan on Thursday feet, the classification of newspaper articles which deal with the war among the three categories are "positive" and "negative" and "neutral" and to preparing files for each unit on the press, stressing at the same time that this category did not affect the work of journalists in the field.
For his part, the Pentagon has distanced himself from this step revealed by newspaper "Stars and Stripes", stressing that he did not resort to days.
He said Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman Thursday: "In my view, that this method does not serve any purpose and value at all. The only criterion used in the Defense Ministry to rule on an article that is health."
Recognized by U.S. forces in Afghanistan in a statement that it engaged the services of a public relations "Rendon" to "provide analytical reports identify particular whether the various articles positive or negative or neutral," she said at the same time that "this information was not used only to evaluate our ability to communicate effectively. "
He said the U.S. military in a statement that "these reports do not develop signs of the journalists or media organizations" and that "U.S. forces in Afghanistan did not restrict the freedom of press days at the previous articles."
The army confirmed the individual files that have been developed to reporters who ask to accompany troops on the ground was designed exclusively "Preparing military leaders before the interviews," It does not contain only the "biography and a basic summary of what he (the journalist) covered it recently."
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