It’s not the Daily Show, but it is available free to cable and satellite providers (tax money already paid for it), plus it’s on the web.
The Pentagon Channel broadcasts military news and information for the 2.6 million members of the U.S. Armed Forces through programming including:
• Department of Defense news briefings
• Military news
• Interviews with top Defense officials
• Short stories about the work of our militaryIn addition to enhancing Department of Defense communications with the 1.4 million active duty service members, the Pentagon Channel will provide the 1.2 million members of the National Guard and Reserve and the 650,000 civilian employees of the Department of Defense more timely access to military information and news.
The Pentagon Channel television service is distributed 24/7 and is available to all stateside cable and satellite providers, via American Forces Radio and Television Services, overseas and via the worldwide web right here at www.pentagonchannel.mil.
This is why I don’t feel guilty about cheating on my taxes… it’s not like the income I’m not reporting would otherwise go to sick children who need health insurance or anything… I mean the Pentagon NEEDS it’s own channel!
Scott,
Keep cheating on your income tax. Meanwhile all those service members dependents across the world will be provided with timely information/news channel for them to keep up with their family members serving and protecting their country. Does it always have to be looked at as wasteful. You might even get a look at some of the positive things our military does for others while overseas instead of the yellow journalism you read and watch on the evening news every night. By the way when you cheat on your income taxes you’re not only cheating me you are cheating yourself.
Im sure Goebbels would be proud
Sticky2j, these guys joined voluntarily. They knew what they were signing. Didn’t they? Why should his taxes fund anything that he doesn’t want to pay for? If this was a free country, we would choose what we want to fund or not.
Sticky2j, You are absolutely right. I understand the military’s need to spend my tax dollars on providing our troops their own TV channel with “positive” war news. And I’m sure each and every soldier would prefer having tax dollars spent on the Pentagon Channel, instead of better equipment and body armor. After all, you need something to watch on TV while you are recovering from a roadside bomb injury at Walter Reed!
#4 “If this was a free country, we would choose what we want to fund or not.”
Well then no country will EVER be a free country by your standards.
This is a joke, right?! What enlisted serviceman gets paid enough to afford cable or satellite Tv? And why would the Pentagon need a special channels all their own, when so many others willingly do their bidding? As if the Discovery Channel isn’t mainly about military hardware, now. And the History Channel, about every war they fought and won. And the Scifi channel hasn’t got some pro-military version of a fictional series. Remember “Space: Above and Beyond”? And what’s the latest “Battlestar Galactica” series, if not mostly military propaganda. Plus the major networks have featured “JAG”, “The UNIT”, “NCIS”, “24”, etc. Add to this the fact that most of the major networks are owned by defense contractors, like General Electric (and at one time Westinghouse). It’s very rare that we ever hear an unbiased view about war or weapons systems, on these networks, that isn’t slanted to what the Pentagon wants. And yet they decided that they needed their own channel to keep the soldiers informed?!! What a joke. The soldiers are always the last to know anything. I know, I was in the military service once. And the brass told the press what was happening, long before they told us pions. I guess they figured we all had radios and would find out that way. So why bother?
The only thing they’ll do with their own dedicated channel is lie or spin the truth about what’s going on in the world. To keep the soldiers believing in the latest politically trumped up war. To offset all those “liberals” opinions in the free press.
#5.- When I was in the service, most bases I was at had fairly rundown movie theaters. And rarely showed current movies (we got them last, only after the whole world saw them 1st). I’ll bet to this day, that most of those aren’t “THX” certified. Instead of a cable channel of boring war news, I’m pretty sure that 99% of the servicemen would rather see first run movies, of some quaility, in a timely schedule (before the DVDs come out), in a renovated base theater, with seats that don’t cripple their spines.
1500, IED protection by the END of the year??? Ummmm…..
NO COMMENT.
A person Barricades himself in a HUT, with a family and shoots at our soldiers??
What happened to Siege warfare? Clear out and dont let him see you…
Wait for him to come out…If he forces the OTHERS out, Pull them AWAY.
No food no water…
If he shoots the prisoners, GREAT, but WE DIDNT DO IT…
Funny, this is my first time on your site (I listen to TWiT) and this story was the first one. My news stories actually air on the Pentagon Channel. Weird how my tech life and work life just overlapped…
Oh, one more thing… it’s all biased news anyhow so I would take everything with a grain of salt.
That channel is loaded with interracial Gay BDSM & uniform fetish porn because all I’m seeing are white guys in soldier uniforms torturing arab men.