Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992)
[…] reference to the Third World, a Leader. Another Hitler: Last year’s ‘moderate’, now threatening our interests. Public diplomacy: The Reagan era name given to a large-scale government propaganda operation, which included massive disinformation and intimidation of the media, designed to manage public opinion. A part of this program was called Operation Truth. Privatisation: Disposing […]
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995)
[…] the introduction the author (or authors) states: ‘Its creation was prompted by the desire of Ministers in Mr Atlee’s Labour government to devise means to combat Communist propaganda’. But ten lines later we find this. ‘Within the Foreign Office…..IRD evolved from plans drawn up in 1946. It took some time, however, for officials to […]
Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994)
[…] through to more recent furores about the TV programmes Real Lives and Death on the Rock, about the Gibraltar shootings. He moves into the development of the propaganda role of the state in the early 1970s in Northern Ireland, including the creation of the Information Policy Unit in 1971. (There is a slight misunderstanding […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003)
Feedback From Ernest Wistrich Dear Sir, I have read the article ‘Spinning the European Union: pro-European propaganda campaigns in the British media’ by Andy Mullen in your Winter 2002 issue. Whilst it contains a number of minor inaccuracies it includes one major misrepresentation, namely that the European Movement, of which I was director between […]
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999)
[…] Affairs (1946) and the Smith-Mundt Act (1948), the latter providing ‘the overseas information program with its basic postwar legal foundation’ and the beginnings of an orchestrated anti-communist propaganda campaign abroad.(17) These efforts were followed by the massive expansion of the Marshall Plan information programmes (1948-51); Truman’s Campaign of Truth, (1950), which Truman himself referred […]