[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 […]
[…] end of the book his unwillingness to use such a term struck me as being at least as strange as the territory he is ‘mapping’. Conspiracy Cinema Propaganda, politics and paranoia David Ray Carter 9 in Afghanistan (and inadvertently helped create Osama Bin Laden). Another is John Dean, President Nixon’s lawyer during the Watergate […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[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. […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] not gunmen at all, but innocent bystanders’. (p. 194) And that is Frank Kitson’s account of the Bloody Sunday massacre! He still complains about how the ‘republican propaganda machine’ succeeded in ‘making most of the Catholic population of Belfast think that I was a wicked fellow’. (p. 189) Colonel Wilford was awarded the OBE […]
[PDF file]: […] usually for lucre, or under the influence of ‘gat’ (khat, a chewed stimulant). Under interrogation, they emitted ‘bloodcurdling squeals’ – not ‘cries’. Cairo Radio didn’t just broadcast propaganda, but ‘spouted’ it, ‘gutterally’. Their supporters – at the UN, for example – ‘ranted’. Not all these expressions come from Mitchell’s mouth; many of them are […]
[PDF file]: […] what good work he had done.52 Compassionate Conservatism The always interesting William Clark has an analysis of so-called ‘progressive Conservatism’ on his site.53 ‘Progressive Conservatism, as a propaganda project, has two strands: the first is to capture the language of other parties to make the party seem progressive (this functions almost solely through repetition); […]
[…] Sadly – and stupidly – access to it is £30.27 However its thesis can seen from the abstract: or 22 Paul Lashmar and James Oliver, Britain’s Secret Propaganda War 1948-1977 (Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 1998) 23 or 24 25 Christopher Mayhew, War of Words: a Cold War Witness (London: I. B. Tauris, 1998) p. 46. […]
