Word: propagandas
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...consoles like Xbox and PlayStation 2, which reach a broader, more recreational audience. No question, the programmers are doing their best to make as accurate a representation as they can, within the limits of the medium. But in the fog of virtual war the lines between education, entertainment and propaganda can get pretty blurry. After I took part in a heated session on a combat simulator, dodging RPGs and blasting away at street fighters in a nameless desert city, Major Zeegers asked me, "So, is killing Afghans fun?" It was hard to tell whether he was joking...
...choice not yet been made? Kim Il Sung gave his son the nod by naming him to the Politburo at the age of 32 and then cranked up the regime's propaganda arm to sing his praises. Kim Jong Il's eldest son, Kim Jong Nam, is 33 but the official media isn't yet hyperventilating about him. Meanwhile, Kim's other sons Jong Chol, 23, and Jong Woon, 21, also remain invisible...
...addition, Douthat is unabashedly Eurocentric. It is a tragedy, he claims, that an undergraduate might leave Harvard’s walls “unable to distinguish Justinian the Great from Julian the Apostate.” Instead, they’re more likely to be familiar with propaganda in Nazi Germany, the role of the samurai in Japanese culture, or the Castro regime in Cuba. Of all the things to criticize, why complain that Harvard is too successful in attempting to expand the cultural and intellectual horizons of its students...
...career was winding down. Her last contract was with the Poverty Row studio Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC) for top-billed roles in two 1942 propaganda films set in the Asian war. In Joseph H. Lewis' Bombs Over Burma she's a schoolteacher joining forces with American GIs to defeat the Japs. "I can stand up and take it now," a soldier brags. "And what's more I can give it back." Wong smiles and replies, "Like China." This is one of the few exchanges in a strange movie, whose dialogue is so sotto voce, it's almost not-o voce...
...schools, the “Negro” was a nonentity. Thus, students, black and white, were “educated” to view blacks as inferior because they were not worth consideration in all the realms of their academic experience. From history to philosophy, anti-black propaganda took root, and black worth withered. This system of education festered on the grounds of educational authority, so it was difficult to perceive the negative effect of this system for blacks collectively. As more students were encouraged to make their “Marx” in the classroom, a subtle...