This should be a crime. The free press is dead.
The New York Times has exposed a secret Pentagon campaign to infiltrate the media with pro-war propaganda. The scheme reaches all the way to the Bush White House, where top officials recruited dozens of "military analysts" to spread favorable views of the war via the news. Many of these propaganda pundits didn’t reveal that they were working from Pentagon scripts or lobbying for companies seeking to cash in on major military contracts. Matt Thompson of Free Press.net, a group that advocates for media reform reports this is a violation of every conceivable standard of journalism — and possibly of federal law.
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on May 31st, 2008 at 4:39 pm
Psyops
"Psyops on steroids" — sounds scary.
So I looked up the definiton of psyops. For those who may also need it, here it is:
PSYOP, PSYOPS are techniques used by military and police forces to influence a target audience’s emotions, motives, objective reasoning and behavior.
"Psyops on steroids" sounds infinitely scarier after that. In fact, it relieved a bad case of the hiccups I just had.