See note (1) This article explores the three pro-European Union propaganda campaigns mounted to date: in 1962-63 to secure public support following Britain’s first application to join the EU; in 1970-71 to prepare the public for accession; and in 1974-75 to ensure continued EU membership in the 1975 Referendum. For simplicity, the term European […]
[…] quite difficult to be certain just which category a given work falls into. (4) The first such category is literature which is consciously produced and/or disseminated for propaganda purposes, often by people with direct or indirect links to the intelligence services of countries that are members of either NATO or the Warsaw Pact. These […]
[…] Organisation, however, acquired something of an official sanction when, in October 1919, Lloyd George called upon the services of Admiral Sir Reginald Hall and his organisation, National Propaganda, to assist the government to defeat the Railway Strike.(28) National Propaganda was employed by the Publicity Sub-committee of the STO to produce unofficial propaganda for the […]
In their recent history of the Information Research Department (IRD), Paul Lashmar and James Oliver discuss George Orwell’s decision to collaborate with that organisation’s anti-Communist propaganda operations. They write that ‘George Orwell’s reputation as a left-wing icon took a body blow from which it may never recover when it was revealed in 1996 that […]
[…] To, by Phil Edwards, in Lobster 42. It contains a venomous and completely idiotic attack on Noam Chomsky (and indirectly on me as a co-author of the propaganda model), and it has other deficiencies as well. Let me elaborate. Edwards quotes Kick on the meaning of a lie, which Kick says is ‘elastic’, encompassing […]
[…] in April 1946 to coordinate policy towards the Soviet Union. On May 7th the committee recognised a need for a ‘defensive-offensive’ policy and drafted guide-lines for a propaganda counter-offensive. Foreign Secretary Bevin, however, was not then convinced such tactics were necessary and Warner’s proposals remained unapproved until November 1947, after the Cominform declaration against […]
[…] that tightly enmeshed each person in an elaborate, all-encompassing infrastructure geared towards exerting social control;(64) the skilfull and systematic application of action psychologique, which included both mass propaganda directed at groups and ‘thought reform’ employed against particular individuals; (65) and the ruthless but controlled utilization of terrorism, whether discriminate or indiscriminate, to intimidate 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 […]
[…] potential impact should be cause for concern. They are the churches, the ‘loyalist opposition’ and, perhaps most important, the unpoliticised public”. He followed this by organising the propaganda campaign against the American Peace Movement’s ‘Ground Zero Week’. (1) Rostow was equally concerned about the growing unilateralist movement and so helped initiate a similar propaganda […]
[…] 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 […]
