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  • From: Michael Czeiszperger <michael AT czeiszperger.org>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] funny bumpersticker
  • Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 12:25:28 -0400


On Sep 21, 2006, at 11:51 AM, Steven Champeon wrote:


That's assuming the editorials weren't just astroturf. Did you search
on certain key phrases in the editorials? In the past, such heartfelt
editorials have been revealed to be nothing more than bogus efforts to
promote utterly false "grassroots" feelings.

I'm sure there's astroturfing going on around the country, but the administration does have actual supporters, even around here.

There was an interview last week with a US student who was an "intern" in Iraq for a media company who's job was to place fake news in the Iraqi media. They were hired by the US Military, who would hand them stories, and his job was to pay editors in Iraqi papers to run the stories. Those stories would then be cited by those in the US as evidence of the "good news" that isn't being reported in the US. In the end the US Military was paying millions of dollars to, in effect, spread propaganda through not only Iraq, but the US as well. The intern said the amount of money involved was staggering, as everyone in the chain required a bribe.


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