Reporters and editors accept bribes to cover stories, to print propaganda articles as though they were news, and to not print information that sponsors do not approve.
Now comes this report of the Pentagon's paying good American dollars to plant propaganda articles in Iraqi newspapers and paying Iraqi journalists American dollars as stipends!
We have a government that engages in secret domestic spying by presidential decree; monitors personal library use; maintains secret prisons for unidentified prisoners held without recourse; engages in abusive treatment (if not torture) of prisoners; plants propaganda articles in domestic and foreign media; and formulates its domestic agenda based upon fundamentalist religious principles.
Many of the (propaganda) articles he wrote about the South African War when he was consul general for the Orange Free State were published secretly, often under another journalist's or newspaper editor's name, to maximise the public relations effect.
Debauer digs up a propaganda article Vonlanden published in 1942, arguing that the Russians "need to kill us, so we treat them as our equals when we besiege, starve, conquer and destroy them".
His attitude was summed up in a reported remark, made when his attention was drawn to a British propaganda article entitled "Tobruk can take it!" Morshead commented: "we're not here to take it, we're here to give it".
Meant to edify, entertain and boost the morale of soldiers, the periodical regularly mixed, inside as well as out, images of pretty women, propaganda, technical articles and pictures of war gear.
Finally, we can count as grade 3 the pure Nazi propaganda in articles or pamphlets such as Mally 1934b and 1938a.
Many blamed his assassination on a rising climate of fear and nationalistic hatred fomented by government propaganda (see article).Ukraine's central bank raised its key interest rate from 19.5% to 30% in an effort to halt the slide of the hryvnia.
With all the high foolishness of state propaganda, the article relished the fact that the odds were stacked against the trainees and the fact that there was "no room for error".
"Close to 24 million people in the EU are unemployed, the Greek debt problem is yet to be resolved, Islamic State fighters are blowing up things and kidnapping people less than 150 kilometers away from EU borders, but European leaders will readily spend millions of dollars to combat elusive Russian propaganda," the article said.
