Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] My limited knowledge of Italy and Italian doesn’t permit me to review Willan’s latest work on the world of Roberto Calvi, the Vatican, the strategy of tension, Propaganda Due, Archbishop Marcinkus, Operation Gladio, the funding of the Italian Christian Democrats, Socialists, Polish Solidarity, the Mafia, freemasonry and the rest. But beyond a general endorsement […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] a very striking account by an American journalist of an Israeli-funded press junket to Israel. Of course the American hacks got a ton of anti-Hamas and anti-Muslim propaganda. That was the point of the exercise. What is striking is the mind-boggling absurdity and crudity of the material offered by the Israelis. Evidently the Israelis […]

view from bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] a very striking account by an American journalist of an Israeli-funded press junket to Israel. Of course the American hacks got a ton of anti-Hamas and anti-Muslim propaganda. That was the point of the exercise. What is striking is the mind-boggling absurdity and crudity of the material offered by the Israelis. Evidently the Israelis […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] in office, President Barack Obama made the decision to set the country on a new course. On Dec. 23, 2016, he signed into law the Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act, which used the language of defending the homeland to launch an open-ended, offensive information war. The message from the U.S. defense establishment was […]

The Rise of New Labour: Into Office

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] which has been persistently cutdown in the City’s interests for the past 20 years. Wrong. According to figures produced in 1999 by the City of London’s own propaganda outfit, British Invisibles – which may be presumed to exaggerate somewhat in the City’s favour – the 9 The notion had been at the core of […]

Divining Desire: Focus Groups and the Culture of Consultation by Liz Featherstone

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)

[PDF file]: […] to 2017, focus groups were helpful in developing the theme of his uselessness. 12 Featherstone p. 246 Samuel C. Woolley & Philip N. Howard, ‘Political Communication, Computational Propaganda and Autonomous Agents’, in International Journal of Communication 10(2016), at < http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/6298/1809>. 13 The Huffington Post ran a focus group story which purported to show how […]

View from Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] a very striking account by an American journalist of an Israeli-funded press junket to Israel. Of course the American hacks got a ton of anti-Hamas and anti-Muslim propaganda. That was the point of the exercise. What is striking is the mind-boggling absurdity and crudity of the material offered by the Israelis. Evidently the Israelis […]

Dallas again

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] actual elements of the assassination? To me it does not, and I think Larry concluded the same thing for different reasons. Cord Meyer? He was a newspaper propaganda guy. Hunt obviously threw him in there to spice it up due to the controversy about his ex wife.’ 26 Putting LBJ on the list of […]

Hack Attack: How The Truth Caught Up With Rupert Murdoch by Nick Davies

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] ‘to be given an off-the-record briefing by the then head of MI6, Sir John Scarlett….. Sir John warned them that the Taliban were using Sun stories as propaganda and that they were damaging British military morale’. Brooks apparently was having none of this, but Murdoch promised to tone the attacks down. It never happened. […]

Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The diaries 1938-1943 Edited by Simon Heffer

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] assumes they are up to something. He confirmed this (24 June 1940) with the comment: ‘Edward Rice came to see me: he is deeply involved in peace propaganda and is alleged to be strongly pro-Nazi. I don’t know: he always praises Hitler in conversation’. We’re not told, of course, what Rice was talking to […]

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