News that US military in Afghanistan terminated a $1.5 million contract with Washington-based strategic communications firm The Rendon Group (TRG) threw agencies that work the Beltway circuit back into a negative limelight following last month's coal association-Bonner & Associates letter-writing fiasco.
The Defense Department's own publication, Stars & Stripes, broke a story where it claimed TRG had been producing profiles of journalists, assessing whether their work was “positive,” “negative,” or “neutral.” The publication writes that “at least two journalists' applications for ...