American Forces Information Service

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The American Forces Information Service (AFIS) was a United States Department of Defense-providing news service that supplied information about the U.S. military. Department of Defense Directive 5105.74 [[1]] disestablished AFIS on October 1, 2008 and created the Defense Media Activity. The DMA provides news stories about military operations world-wide and includes all the military service Media Centers, Stars and Stripes newspapers as well as the American Forces Radio and Television Service and its American Forces Network (AFN).

[edit] References

• John Hickman. "Finding the Words: A Content Analysis of American Forces Information Service Reporting on the War in Afghanistan." South Asian Journal of Socio-Political Studies. Vol. 7, No. 1 (July-Dec. 2006), Pp. 6-8, 14).

[edit] External links

• AFIS

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