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Propaganda Alert: Don't Call Drone Strikes 'Surgical'

They are anything but precise and clean, says Conor Friedersdorf

(Newser) - "Surgical" is the White House's adjective of choice in describing its drone strikes in Pakistan and around the world. But Conor Friedersdorf, writing in the Atlantic , thinks he has two better words: "Orwellian propaganda." "Surgical" makes you think of precision, like an operation, with drone...

China Sinking Big Bucks Into African News

Critics say propaganda, but Chinese call it good PR

(Newser) - China has long been investing big money into Africa, in construction, natural resources, housing, and other projects. Increasingly, though, China is also pouring money into news and media on the continent, bringing two Chinese television news channels, radio, and written articles by Xinhua, China's state-sponsored news service, to places...

Syria 'Investigation': Rebels Carried Out Houla Massacre

As rebels report more mass executions

(Newser) - Bashar al-Assad was framed, he tells ya, framed. Syrian investigators today concluded that the infamous Houla massacre was the work of rebels trying to drum up global outrage against the regime. "Government forces did not enter the area," the general heading up the inquiry said, according to the...

Obama&#39;s Kill Counts Are Vile Propaganda
 Obama's Kill Counts 
 Are Vile Propaganda 
Glenn Greenwald
May 29, 2012 12:49 PM CDT

Obama's Kill Counts Are Vile Propaganda

Glenn Greenwald dares the media to keep using Obama's definition of 'militant'

(Newser) - In case you missed it, this morning's New York Times contained a staggering revelation : The Obama administration has been counting every military-aged man it kills as a "militant," unless it can specifically prove that they're not. "That's nothing less than sociopathic, a term I...

Hollywood Got Inside Scoop on bin Laden Raid
Hollywood Got Inside Scoop on bin Laden Raid
DOCUMENT LEAK
May 23, 2012 11:24 AM CDT

Hollywood Got Inside Scoop on bin Laden Raid

Despite leak warnings, CIA, Pentagon and White House rolled out the red carpet

(Newser) - The White House, CIA, and Pentagon all gave special access to Hurt Locker director Kathryn Bigelow to help with her movie about Osama bin Laden's death, according to documents obtained by the conservative Judicial Watch . In one interview , Undersecretary of Defense Mike Vickers tells Bigelow that top admirals can'...

Why Teachers Raged at Kenneth Cole
 Why Teachers Raged 
 at Kenneth Cole 
opinion
Apr 30, 2012 5:30 PM CDT

Why Teachers Raged at Kenneth Cole

David Sirota calls Cole campaign 'propaganda'

(Newser) - Facing outcry from teachers, Kenneth Cole has offered to pull a new ad and web campaign that blithely pits "Teachers' Rights vs. Students' Rights"—and David Sirota's article at Salon explains the hubbub. For starters, a Cole foundation website is asking readers to weigh in on the...

Reporters Probing Pentagon Hit With Smear Campaign

USA Today writers Tom Vanden Brook and Ray Locker find online shenanigans

(Newser) - A USA Today reporter and editor were targeted with an online smear campaign not long after publishing stories investigating the Pentagon's propaganda contractors, the paper alleged today . Just days after Tom Vanden Brook published his first story on the Pentagon's "information operations," a website registered in...

Bus&#39;s Wrong Turn Reveals Real North Korea


 Bus' Wrong Turn 
 Reveals Real 
 North Korea 
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Apr 15, 2012 7:00 PM CDT

Bus' Wrong Turn Reveals Real North Korea

Reporters get a look at grimy reality normally hidden on staged presentations

(Newser) - The press bus took a wrong turn. And suddenly, everything changed in the official showcase of North Korean achievement. Dust swirled down deeply potholed streets, past crumbling concrete apartment buildings. Old people trudged along the sidewalk, while two men in wheelchairs waited at a bus stop. There were stores with...

US Media Leading Propaganda War on Iran

 US Media Leading 
 Propaganda War on Iran 
OPINION
Feb 14, 2012 12:41 PM CST

US Media Leading Propaganda War on Iran

It's blindly beating the war drums once again: Glenn Greenwald

(Newser) - The American media took its lumps after the Iraqi war for not challenging the government's allegations against Saddam Hussein. It promised to learn its lesson. Guess what? The same thing is now happening in regard to Iran, with a twist: The media is actually "out in front of...

Bill Maher: 'Who the F*** Is Saul Alinsky?'

Maher calls conservative propaganda 'paranoid,' 'fictional'

(Newser) - With conservatives increasingly comparing the strategy of President Obama to the playbook of Saul Alinsky, Bill Maher has two angry responses: "One, why would you invite my outrage by suggesting such a specious link? ... And two, who the f--- is Saul Alinsky?" In a clip picked up by Mediaite...

North Korea Punishes 'Insincere' Mourners

Crocodile tears for Kim result in forced labor, source says

(Newser) - North Koreans whose mourning of their Dear Leader lacked enthusiasm have been sent to join the 200,000 of their countrymen already in labor camps, according to Daily NK . The South Korea-based website, citing sources in the North, says people who either skipped mourning sessions for Kim Jong Il or...

Hollywood Has Turned 'Cryptofascist'

Batman writer's attacks on Occupy Wall Street no surprise: Rick Moody

(Newser) - They say Hollywood is liberal, but in fact it's more of a right-wing propaganda machine, writes Rick Moody in the Guardian . From Schwarzenegger to Spider-Man, “the message is there: Might is right, the global economy will be restored, America is exceptional, homely people deserve political disenfranchisement, and so...

Surprise! Putin Diving 'Discoveries' Were Fake

Press secretary sees no cause for 'malicious joy'

(Newser) - You were right, Internet. Vladimir Putin isn’t really a deep sea archaeologist . The once-and-future Russian president’s press secretary has admitted that the video of Putin finding a collection of ancient Greek jugs at the bottom of a Black Sea bay was a setup, the New York Times reports....

Blacks Duped by Propaganda on Lefty 'Plantation': Pat Buchanan

Stands by Herman Cain, agrees African-Americans were 'brainwashed'

(Newser) - Pat Buchanan agrees with Herman Cain that African-Americans were “brainwashed” into being Democrats—in fact, they “bought a lot of liberal propaganda on the liberal plantation,” he told Martin Bashir on MSNBC yesterday. “I think the African-American community has embraced Great Society liberalism which has been...

FDA Doctored Its Gross Cigarette Photos
 FDA Doctored Its Gross 
 Cigarette Photos 
OPINION
Jun 23, 2011 1:34 PM CDT

FDA Doctored Its Gross Cigarette Photos

That's one way to counter tobacco company lies!

(Newser) - The government has long accused those evil tobacco companies of running campaigns of deception to sell their products. Well, now the FDA is fighting fire with fire, Charles Hurt of the Washington Times has learned. The FDA has released a set of gruesome images that will soon be plastered on...

Syria: 'Gangs' Killed 120 Troops

Protesters say that's ridiculous

(Newser) - Syria's state-run TV network is alleging that 120 police and security officers have been killed by "armed gangs" in the northwest town of Jisr al-Shughour, including 82 in an attack on one security post. The report hasn't been independently verified, and the number reported dead has ballooned...

'Sheen' Used for Libya Psy-Ops
 'Sheen' Used for Libya Psy-Ops 
WINNING?
Mar 25, 2011 6:21 AM CDT

'Sheen' Used for Libya Psy-Ops

Actor's name used as flight call sign

(Newser) - Charlie Sheen won't likely bring his " Violent Torpedo of Truth" tour to Libya, but military flights bearing his name are doing a tour of their own. A Dutch radio buff monitoring and tweeting military communications has discovered that Libya flights by an Air Force cargo plane configured to broadcast...

Military's New Project: Social Media Propaganda

Centcom has put out contract for 'sock puppet' software

(Newser) - The US military has hired a California company to develop a program that will let it operate a host of bogus social media accounts, in the hopes of covertly influencing online discourse and spreading pro-American propaganda overseas, the Guardian reports. This “online persona management service” would allow each user...

Gadhafi's Propaganda Has Tripoli Celebrating

Rebels losing ground as government attacks morale

(Newser) - It was a bad day for rebel forces in Libya, but in the streets of Tripoli people were celebrating—in part because they believed the news state-run television was broadcasting. David Green of NPR talked to people in a crowd of a few hundred Moammar Gadhafi supporters, who said...

North Korea to South, US: We'll Attack You Mercilessly

It's angered by thousands of balloons, among other things

(Newser) - It's a day of threats from North Korea: First, the country vowed to fire into South Korea if the South continues to launch balloons into North Korea that are loaded with leaflets about the anti-government uprisings in the Middle East, reports Reuters . "We officially notify that our army will...

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