Word: propagandas
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...annals of 20th-century journalism, few names are more ignominious than Walter Duranty. The New York Times’ Moscow correspondent during the 1920s and 1930s, Duranty was by all accounts a liar, a recycler of propaganda and a willful apologist for one of history’s bloodiest tyrants, Joseph Stalin...
Bottom line: Duranty’s is an extraordinary case of second-hand propaganda masquerading as real journalism. Rarely, if ever, has a Western reporter so consistently trumpeted the party line of a brutal dictatorship. It is perhaps too much to hope that the Times would voluntarily “return” Duranty’s prize, as the Washington Post returned Janet Cooke’s prize in 1981. And yes, no Pulitzer has ever been outright revoked. But it’s hard to fathom another instance where the Pulitzer Board has made, or will make, such...
...marriage. But Romney and other radicals want to go even further and amend the state constitution to ban not only same-sex marriage, but civil unions as well. Although a post-Goodridge poll showed that 53 percent of Massachusetts voters oppose such action, conservative activists are already beginning a propaganda campaign to drive the amendment through...
...Muslim world where affiliated franchises are available and able to take on the job. Al-Qaeda has evidently found a powerful rallying point for jihad in the U.S. occupation of Iraq. Since the invasion, the number and frequency of attacks have risen dramatically. It serves al-Qaeda's propaganda purposes to make people believe it is behind every outrage--even if like-minded groups are acting on their own. Investigators suspect bin Laden's outfit had a direct hand in the May bombings in Saudi Arabia and the August suicide assault in Indonesia. But Moroccan and French security officials...
...imagine its sparkle enlivening the Yale Bowl for long. When it comes down to it, Yale is a lot like the Soviet Union. And it’s not just New Haven’s corroding concrete and dirty smokestacks or the school’s blatant anti-Harvard propaganda and horrifically poor labor relations that make it that way. It’s that Yale can’t hope to compete with a real superpower, especially when its little bundle of perestroika is confiscated by a hard-line police state before the fun begins...