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December 04, 2005
A Page Straight Out of the old Soviet Union's Media Control Playbook
The Los Angeles Times, which broke the story about the Bush Administration's "multimillion-dollar" propaganda program in Iraq that operated under the guise of a free press, scathingly denounced the operation in a December 3, 2005 editorial. The publication said, in part: The gang that couldn't shoot straight is firmly ensconced in Washington. The State Department trains Iraqi journalists how to be independent and fair; at the same time, the Defense Department contracts with an organization that secretly pays Iraqi publications to print stories making the American occupiers look good.
As often happens with propaganda, when daylight exposes the secret, the stench is overpowering.And it will get worse. Combine a propaganda program with killing and intimidating journalist who won't play ball with U.S. occupation forces in Iraq and you have scenario copied from the old Soviet Union's playbook on propaganda and intimidation. Here's the editorial.
Posted by Munir Umrani at December 4, 2005 06:31 AM
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