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US Military Explored Hiring Bloggers As Propagandists
Zeinfeld writes "Wired reports that one time Clipper Chip supporter Dorothy Denning wrote a report on using blogs for information warfare in 2006 (a report available from cryptome). Amongst the proposals were hiring bloggers directly as propaganda agents and using military media resources to 'make' a blogger posting favorable material. Notably, and most unfortunately absent from the report, is the very real question of whether the military should be manipulating domestic media." Is meme warfare just another battleground, or is this dirty pool?
True but where is the integrity? Pretending to be an individual when your Uncle Sam Blog is actually many individuals is deceitful.
The government is not your daddy. Its purpose is not to raid middle-class neighbors' wallets and give it to you.
"blogs are a continuation of war by other means"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_von_Clausewitz#Cultural_References
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
to shape conflict into less arbitrary and deadly tactics. not prevent conflict. as gandhi implies, this is impossible. mankind will always live in conflict. but does he resport to bombs? or resort to airing his grievances in words and a court system? obviously the latter is better than the former, and the whole point of progress. so, in a perverse way, resorting to ideological blogs and propaganda is superior to real warfare, and a GOOD development, not a nefarious one
i would rather someone lie to me than kill me. so bring on the propaganda, from all directions. let it flow freely. beats suicide bombs and bombs from the sky
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
and the usa never was better than anyone else
and the usa never will be better than anyone else
and thinking it should be, for any rationale, is stupid
and thinking you can make the usa better than anyone else, with language and rhetoric that emphasizes how the usa is especially bad (for doing what everyone else does already, but not mentioning that), is doubly stupid
you don't make the world a better place by focusing all of your attention on the usa
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
A few talk show hosts do not counter the propaganda that is the leftist mainstream media. All media is propaganda from someone's point of view. If "the news" was actually news rather than the propaganda arm of the Democratic party, talk show hosts and a lot of bloggers would have a lot less to talk about.
The same could be said of the mainstream media which is, arguably, why the government under the current administration and military feel the need to counter with what some consider to be propaganda.
Wow, Dude. What color is the sky on your planet?
The current administration started with lying propaganda from the start and the mainstream media was entirely complicit with the completely bullshit selling of this war on entirely false pretenses.
So, no, it is nothing at all like "oh the poor innocent administration is just countering the evil media propaganda.
That idiocy you spewed isn't even sane, let alone correct.
It's not the government or the military fears the citizens of the United States, they fear the consequences of those citizens only being influenced by the propaganda of the mainstream media which is no more pure than that produced by the administration/military.
Bullshit. They are scared to death of an informed population which is why we've heard nothing but blatant lies out of them. Why do you think there are still morons who think this war has anything to do with terrorism or protecting America? It's due to the government and the media conspiring together against the citizens.
I consider the vast majority of what is broadcast as supposedly neutral "news" to be biased and, in many cases, the propaganda arm of the Democratic party.
Then you are an ignorant delusional fool, completely divorced from reality. Not only is there no evidence for such a ridiculous idea, there isn't even a mechanism by which it could happen. The MSM is owned by large corporations and run in the interests of those corporations. War makes cash so that's what they support.
I mean just spend a couple minutes thinking and the idiocy of your position becomes quite obvious.
If out media were anywhere near *neutral*, then this entire administration would have been executed years ago for their many blatant acts of treason. That would be the result of a clear concise unbiased reporting of their chosen actions and nothing more.
The media isn't neutral, they are far right wing as they have to be given who owns them.
Seriously, sparky, your delusional lies are decades out of touch with reality.