[…] when there was almost nothing else on it and so they loomed large. Second, the discovery of an official state organisation which had apparently been putting out propaganda against sections of the British Left, and had cosy relationships with a large chunk of the British media, confirmed some of the worst suspicions on the […]
[…] case. All we have is an omission; we can’t know that we were being lied to. Herman objects to my characterisation of his and Noam Chomsky’s ‘ propaganda model’ as an exemplar of ‘white crow’ thinking. He writes: the notion that Chomsky says that “what you believe is the truth and anyone saying otherwise […]
[…] downplays the Army’s role in arming and inciting the civilian murder bands, concludes that, whatever the strength of popular anti-PKI hatred and fear, ‘without the Army’s anti-PKI propaganda the massacre might not have happened.’ (26) I shall go further and argue that Gestapu, Suharto’s response, and the bloodbath were part of a single coherent […]
[…] reference to the Third World, a Leader. Another Hitler: Last year’s ‘moderate’, now threatening our interests. Public diplomacy: The Reagan era name given to a large-scale government propaganda operation, which included massive disinformation and intimidation of the media, designed to manage public opinion. A part of this program was called Operation Truth. Privatisation: Disposing […]
[…] the Soviet Committee for Cultural Relations With Compatriots Abroad. “Kodumaa” is published in Tallinn, Estonia. The Soviet Committee For Cultural Relations With Compatriots Abroad is a Soviet propaganda organization founded in East Berlin, Germany, in 1955; and since that time has been edited by various Soviet officials. The Committee publishes a magazine entitled “Homeland” […]
[…] the introduction the author (or authors) states: ‘Its creation was prompted by the desire of Ministers in Mr Atlee’s Labour government to devise means to combat Communist propaganda’. But ten lines later we find this. ‘Within the Foreign Office…..IRD evolved from plans drawn up in 1946. It took some time, however, for officials to […]
[…] through to more recent furores about the TV programmes Real Lives and Death on the Rock, about the Gibraltar shootings. He moves into the development of the propaganda role of the state in the early 1970s in Northern Ireland, including the creation of the Information Policy Unit in 1971. (There is a slight misunderstanding […]
[…] within the Foreign Office. IRD worked abroad trying to combat nationalism in the British Empire, and at home to combat the British left. IRD fed information and propaganda on ‘communists’ within the labour movement through confidential recipients of its briefings one of whom we now know was the late Vic Feather into the media, […]
Feedback From Ernest Wistrich Dear Sir, I have read the article ‘Spinning the European Union: pro-European propaganda campaigns in the British media’ by Andy Mullen in your Winter 2002 issue. Whilst it contains a number of minor inaccuracies it includes one major misrepresentation, namely that the European Movement, of which I was director between […]
[…] Affairs (1946) and the Smith-Mundt Act (1948), the latter providing ‘the overseas information program with its basic postwar legal foundation’ and the beginnings of an orchestrated anti-communist propaganda campaign abroad.(17) These efforts were followed by the massive expansion of the Marshall Plan information programmes (1948-51); Truman’s Campaign of Truth, (1950), which Truman himself referred […]
