March 27th, 2006
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| The Lynch story was among the stories cited in a 2003 analysis titled “Truth From These Podia,” by Sam Gardiner, a retired U.S. Air Force colonel and former instructor at the National War College. Gardiner studied the Iraq-war-related statements of U.S. and British officials and found “over 50 stories manufactured or at least engineered that distorted the picture” for American and British newspaper readers. |
| These media-related tactics aren’t limited to wartime. Remember those columnists paid to write in support of Bush administration education and marriage initiatives? And the dissemination of fake TV news stories to promote the administration’s prescription drug plan? “The Daily Show” dubbed these techniques “infoganda”. |
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To think that democracy must triumph because it is the truth that leads man to be democratic and to believe that when the democratic regime is opposed to reigmes of oppression, its superiority will be clear at first sight to the infallible judgement of man and history. The choice is thus certain. What amazement is displayed again and again by democrats, particularly Anglo-Saxon democrats, when they see that a man selects something else, and that history is indecisive. In such cases they decide to use information.. not borne out by facts.
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Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes,
Jacques Ellul.
Paperback ©1965. pg. 234
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Posted in The War Years | By Willie Buck Merle