Yeah, Sure, Tell Me Another

Military commanders in Afghanistan are not rejecting requests from reporters who want to accompany U.S. troops in Afghanistan because their prior coverage of the military has been negative, the Pentagon said Monday.

The denial came after the newspaper Stars and Stripes reported that The Rendon Group, a Washington-based public relations firm with a controversial past, is screening work by journalists seeking "embed" assignments and giving them positive, neutral or negative ratings as part of a background profile.

Yeah, sure, they'd never ever think of rating reporters and refusing to embed reporters who did not write favorable coverage.

Except when they do.