It is shameful that Mother Jones publishes bullshit like this-
Is Congress Really Authorizing US Propaganda at Home?
By Adam Weinstein, Mother Jones
Tue May. 22, 2012 3:00 AM PDT
(T)he outcry in this case seems misguided. For starters, the proposed law doesn’t permit the spread of any information that isn’t already available to the American public. Moreover, the amendment could conceivably bring more of the government’s overseas information operations into the sunlight, a good thing.
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The argument against Thornberry’s and Smith’s amendment appears to be pretty straightforward: We only want US propaganda peddled to foreign populations, but not to our own! In reality, though, most “public diplomacy” is mundane boilerplate about America’s purple mountains’ majesties.
Bullshit.
Pentagon Contractor Admits To Perpetrating Online Smear Campaign Against USA Today Reporters
By Adam Peck, Think Progress
May 24, 2012 at 6:21 pm
The former head of a group that contracts with the Pentagon to produce propaganda material used oversees has admitted to launching a similar disinformation campaign against two U.S.-based reporters.
In April, two USA Today journalists claimed they were the victims of a deliberate “reputation attack” after they wrote a series of stories about the Pentagon’s contracts with groups that specialize in the production of propaganda. Days after the journalists began speaking with officials at the Pentagon and other sources for the story, fake websites and social media accounts set up in the names of the two reporters were mysteriously registered and began trying to discredit the stories.
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that’s different from “disinformation” against reporters. This is character assassination and slander. I see a difference between “swift-boating” and “propaganda.” In this case propaganda is a euphemism.