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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Thursday, November 10, 2011

10 November - Blogs I'm Following II

PARK CITY, UT - JANUARY 25:  Executive Produce...Image by Getty Images via @daylife
Valerie Plame at an event at Moravian College ...Image via Wikipedia

"Kill the Messenger" Chronicles Media's Role in Conflicts From Rwanda to Mexico

 Hundreds of journalists (to be exact, 850 since 1992, and 72 in 2009 alone) have been killed as eyewitnesses to violence. These people were not detached and neutral bystanders; given the growth of secrecy, journalists are an enemy to the institutions they cover. This work is a survey of media patterns in conflict and crisis situations. "Mainstream media," whether state or corporate controlled, have largely acted as an instrument for shielding government, corporate, or military interests.

opit, Jack-of-all trades and master of none
You seem to 'beg the question' when it comes to known continuation of tactics utilized in World War II - and earlier.

Table 5.1 in the U.S. Army Counterinsurgency Field Manual contains, among many, the following recommendations:

“Learn the insurgents’ messages or narratives. Develop countermessages and counternarratives to attack the insurgents’ ideology.”

“Respond quickly to insurgent propaganda. Delaying responses can let the insurgent story dominate several news cycles. That situation can lead to the insurgents’ version of events becoming widespread and accepted.”
http://www.earthisland.org/jou...

Information Warfare and Deception
http://inform.nu/Articles/Vol9...

Information Operations in Iraq
http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/aw...

For that matter, there is a website and online movie about the 'selling' of war in Iraq - which was planned during the Clinton Administration and an objective presumably not only of the PNAC, but also Kissinger and AIPAC

http://www.leadingtowar.com/wa...

For that matter, the Valerie Plame / Wilson incident where the CIA agent in charge of Middle East nuclear threat assessment intel from the Brewster Jennings network was 'blown' by Cheney's office and subsequently 'yellowcake' was ginned up as an 'atomic menace' as part and parcel of the NPT TRAP shows that the fabrication of 'intelligence' is as pervasive as advertising used as 'news' videos.

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