Propaganda 101

It's kind of funny, in a sad way, how the media gets it wrong so many times. Lately, there have been more than a few attacks on "American Propaganda" being put out.

What's really sad is that the journalists who tout themselves as the "free press" that are "championing free speech" do not know real propaganda from their misconceptions of what propaganda should be.

Case in point: Today I posted a picture. It was from a photo essay freely available from the "Defend America" website. It is of a member of an engineering company working to rebuild a village. Not long after I put the picture up, this comment was made:

Of course you won’t see that in the corporate media. They and Bush have an understanding that there will be zero discussion of the permanent bases being built in Iraq for American troops.

Time stamp - 4 PM.

I found this a while ago (no time stamp - guess they don't want evidence) This is advice on "how to reframe the debate".

1. Iran presently has a strong, rational incentive to get nukes.

Bush is planting permanent military bases on Iran's doorstep in Iraq, and trying to proliferate nukes to nearby India. Iran's feeling the heat, and desperately wants to pull a North Korea: get a nuke to keep the neocons at bay.

That would be from here.

It's kind of funny - I had never once heard the "Bush is planting permanent bases" until today. I laughed when I read it. Now we know where this kind of stuff comes from.

The media will dutifully follow the real propaganda trail. And publish it to the rest of the country.

UPDATE: Made a few edits to clarify.

UPDATE: Cox and Forkum also noticed the propaganda primer.

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