so i recently had the opportunity to work with david barstow on an important project at work. it was the A1 story for sunday’s newspaper and dominated the website for a lot of the weekend.

To the public, these men are members of a familiar fraternity, presented tens of thousands of times on television and radio as “military analysts” whose long service has equipped them to give authoritative and unfettered judgments about the most pressing issues of the post-Sept. 11 world.

Hidden behind that appearance of objectivity, though, is a Pentagon information apparatus that has used those analysts in a campaign to generate favorable news coverage of the administration’s wartime performance, an examination by The New York Times has found.

i developed the interactive along with david, amy o’leary and michele monteleone. it really was a welcome challenge working with david’s raw documents and copy. our interactive provides a narrative of one theme in the article. it also provides a unique interface allowing users to seamlessly examine the documents. all primary documents are also available for download.

being informed is good stuff.