Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...imperfect success of the propaganda campaign leaves Iraq with one big hope for a face-saving way out of the war: Soviet diplomacy. Moscow has not only gone along with the U.S. demand that Iraq get out of Kuwait completely and unconditionally but also helped draft the U.N. resolution authorizing the use of force if Saddam did not comply by Jan. 15. That, however, was when glasnost and democratization were in full flower, and Eduard Shevardnadze, a professed friend of the U.S., was Foreign Minister...
...outcry rose up last week after the allied bombing of a Baghdad building in which several hundred Iraqis died. The outrage was not, for the most part, against the allied bombing strategy but against TV networks for showing the grisly footage uncritically and thus once again serving Saddam's propaganda needs. "Ninety percent of the people calling my show were saying, 'Hey, this was a military target,' " says Jerry Williams, a talk host for Boston's WRKO radio. "We had four full hours of negative reaction to the press...
...wants to believe things are going well. Any report that tends to contradict optimistic U.S. pronouncements, or support Iraqi claims, casts the press in the role of unwanted messenger. The public is well aware, moreover, of the crucial role that favorable or unfavorable press coverage can have in the propaganda battle that is shaping the course...
...GULF WAR: Saddam pulls out a surprise peace offer, but his conditions are unacceptable to the coalition partners; meanwhile, the air assault and propaganda war rage...
...between journalism and patriotism. Consider those dreadful pictures of civilian casualties. Civilian casualties are inevitable and arguably justified in fighting a just war. But in a democracy, people have the right to make that decision for themselves. And they can't decide if they don't know. Saddam's propaganda weapon of advertising civilian casualties could succeed only by persuading people that the war is a bad idea and ought to cease. But if that did happen -- if enough people were genuinely convinced -- then, indeed, the war ought to cease...