Word: propagandas
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...against Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's support for the war, some 5,000 people turned up at a rally organized by the hostages' families. Back in Iraq, the three captives knew nothing of that, though they assumed the videos taken of them eating nice meals would be used as propaganda. In reality, Agliana told TIME last week, the food was snatched away as soon as the cameras stopped rolling and the Italians were bound and forced to lie on the floor. Meals were limited mostly to pita bread and broth, and the men were often given only dirty water...
Corker, a history concentrator who served as the war’s “minister of propaganda,” said he conducted extensive research prior to the declaration of war to evaluate what was missing from House life...
...Corker, as minister of propaganda, admitted that in large part, the war was started because “it was fun, and a way of bringing back that old traditional Harvard spirit...
...address. Everyone knows that fat is ugly and that it kills. The press has been all over this story for years while at the same time celebrating the svelte and the diets that make them that way. So it's not enough to say the fast-food industry's propaganda trumps our mass desire to be slender. Something else must be operative here--some desperate need for sugary comfort that all the green, leafy vegetables in the world cannot satisfy. We still say it's spinach, and we still say the hell with it. --By Richard Schickel
...Terenzio's job is to make it even better. As a part-time adviser to CCTV International's 24-hour English-language news channel, the independent producer is the first foreigner charged with putting an internationally friendly face on the mainland's propaganda machine. As if that weren't odd enough, his salary is paid by News Corp.-the global media conglomerate whose U.S.-based news channel, Fox News, is widely perceived as unabashedly pro-American and whose chairman, Rupert Murdoch, once infuriated China's leaders by stating that satellite-TV systems posed a threat to "totalitarian regimes everywhere...