More on the papers relased on the Pentagon psyop

[solarbird]

Glennwald's column today is largely the words of the Director of DoD Press Operations, evaluating the results in 2005 of one of their more recent domestic propaganda operations.

If you didn't read yesterday's round of quoted excerpts from these papers, please, please do. This isn't at all interpretive. This is entirely in the source material. The source material talks very explicitly about the goals, intents, and methods. This is entirely about the administration, DoD, and pentagon setting up hundreds of supposedly "independent" analysts as propaganda distributors. They are the ones using the term "echo chamber," they are the ones talking about how to eliminate off-message voices from the air, they are the ones telling people what to write, and in some cases even doing the editing.

And I remind you again that covert domestic propaganda operations by the US government exactly like this one are illegal, but this one was massive.

Comments

[ginmar.livejournal.com]

Isn't this using psyop on your own people?

[solarbird]

I'm not sure of a good technical difference between the two, so I'd have to say yes until shown otherwise.

[ginmar.livejournal.com]

They're targetting an audience, tailoring a product to influence them and.....Yeah. This is illegal in so many different ways but we left illegal a long way back.

Have you seen the frontline documentary "Bush's War"?

[solarbird]

Indeed, with the leaving illegal a long way back.

I've heard of the documentary, but haven't seen it.

[ginmar.livejournal.com]

Watch it, then. It's absolutely horrifying to see it all knit together in a concise fashion.

[angharads-house.livejournal.com]

yes, simply put.