Word: propaganda
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...information retrieval, to furnish the equivalent of an entire archive at every attached time-sharing terminal) will have no intrinsic connection with policies of repression at home or abroad; social repression, after all, proceeds through dossier, not crosstabulations. You cannot argue against a tank, but you can counter propaganda with exposure, or counterpropaganda, or even counterargument, all at the cost only of the media involved in the response. One might as well close the Library of Congress because the Pentagon has a library card...
...technology to be developed in the Cambridge project. It is possible, even if unlikely, that the Panthers or the "radical studentry" could learn just as much as the U.S. government from, for example, MIT Professor Ithiel de Sola Pool's ComCom project, which is concerned with the dissemination of propaganda in communist and underdeveloped countries. But the Panthers and the radical students do not control facilities for beaming highly sophisticated propaganda at hundreds of millions of people, and the U.S. government does. The list of implements which the Panthers and the students do not have- and which the U.S. government...
...data from various countries (emphasizing Pool's ComCom data on mass communications in the Soviet Union, China, and two or three underdeveloped countries), Chinese provincial statistics, characteristics of Latin American countries since 1810, data on development of underdeveloped countries, data on youth movements, mass unrest and political change, international propaganda output, and peasant behavior and attitudes...
...June. It was incongruous. We arrived at O-Building and entered through the canteen, where patients can buy coffee and chewing gum. The yellow walls carried a huge mural of Snoopy and Charlie Brown and said "Happiness is the O-Building Canteen." Typical volunteer propaganda, I thought...
...nature of the information, move the populace toward militant action. Its publication of the stolen documents from University Hall sharpened the struggle. Although it did not report about the split within the Strike Committee between WSA and the New Left Caucus, the Mole successfully avoided becoming solely a propaganda tool. It provided news which could be obtained from no other source. Its factual accuracy helped to maintain its credibility in the non-radical community...