Iran so far away
By Carl Prine on Monday, May 30th, 2011 
A piece of propaganda from Iran is circulating. Let’s make sure it doesn’t inch into the news. It’s based on a lie. The U.S. Navy isn’t shooting 120mm mortar rounds into Misrata.
Posts Tagged ‘Propaganda’
“Odyssey Dawn” as a name sucks
By Carl Prine on Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011 
Regardless of what you think about the sagacity of Eldorado Canyon II: The Wrath of Hillary, the operation’s title blows serious goat.
Propaganda or Plain Ol’ PR?
By Jamie McIntyre on Thursday, October 1st, 2009 
To subscribe to the more benign view that this was good old-fashioned public relations, not pernicious propaganda, one would have to give some of the people involved the benefit of the doubt, and these days no one is predisposed in that direction.
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