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...lived in such a time. Born in Paris in 1931, he was a founding member of both the Lettrist International and Situationist International movements, and he wrote letters—a lot of them. The SI movement attempted to use art for social and political change. Indeed, SI embraced propaganda??what they saw as “arts as a means”—within and without the organization. Unlike other movements before them, this group aspired towards action rather than the formation of a set of doctrines, resisting the term “situationism...
...people of Iraq. The only sources of information to the Iraqis were state-controlled, and conjuring up defeats of the coalition forces would raise the morale of Iraqi troops who would find renewed strength to fight after hearing of the defeats of their enemy. In addition, such propaganda??especially when repeated over and over again—may help to bandwagon others into joining a movement. Once a few groups fall prey to this misinformation and join a cause, their support becomes social evidence of the clamor. This becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy—people becoming part...
...principle of blood kinship,” a charge that had prompted Harvard’s Dershowitz to declare that the “mendacious emphasis on Jewish ‘blood’ “might indicate that the professors had used “neo-Nazi propaganda?? in their sourcing...
...BATTLING THE INSURGENT PROPAGANDA?...
...Rather, most of Rich’s examples of Bush administration propaganda??everything from its shameless parading of the Jessica Lynch rescue to the inherently staged nature of Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” landing on the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln—have all been reported before one way or another, whether through the New York Times or “The Daily Show...