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U.S. Repeals Propaganda Ban, Spreads Government-Made News to Americans
2013 Jul 15, 7:00am 801 views 4 comments
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2013 Jul 15, 7:29am
So what just happened?
Initially, the ban protected commercial news sellers from having to compete with subsidized government news. Now that the commercial news sellers are subsidiaries of the government contractors and regulated monopolies that are already paying politicians and lobbyists to control the government, the commercial news operations became a redundant expense. If you've already bought the government, why would you pay again to maintain a news bureau full of "reporters"? In lemon socialism, it's much more efficient to have the government pay "reporters" to say what you want them to say, so that you can reap the gains more efficiently. These efficiencies are called synergies, as in, 'when we merge Consolidated Monopolcorp and Monopolated Consolicorp, we can achieve synergies (owning both major parties) and eliminate redundancies (journalists)."
But if anyone needed a reminder of the dangers of domestic propaganda efforts, the past 12 months provided ample reasons. Last year, two USA Today journalists were ensnared in a propaganda campaign after reporting about millions of dollars in back taxes owed by the Pentagon's top propaganda contractor in Afghanistan. Eventually, one of the co-owners of the firm confessed to creating phony websites and Twitter accounts to smear the journalists anonymously. Additionally, just this month, the Washington Post exposed a counter-propaganda program by the Pentagon that recommended posting comments on a U.S. website run by a Somali expat with readers opposing al-Shabab. "Today, the military is more focused on manipulating news and commentary on the Internet, especially social media, by posting material and images without necessarily claiming ownership," reported the Post.
http://www.netrootsmass.net/hughs-bush-scandals-list/
No Child Left Behind, based on flawed and false data, chronically underfunded, capricious in its evaluations, places test scores above knowledge; allegations have arisen that people at the Department of Education pushed reading programs as part of NCLB that they had financial interests in.
$8 Billion propaganda slush fund used on No Child Left Behind!!!
U.S. Repeals Propaganda Ban, Spreads Government-Made News to Americans
http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/07/12/us_backs_off_propaganda_ban_spreads_government_made_news_to_americans
For decades, a so-called anti-propaganda law prevented the U.S. government's mammoth broadcasting arm from delivering programming to American audiences. But on July 2, that came silently to an end with the implementation of a new reform passed in January. The result: an unleashing of thousands of hours per week of government-funded radio and TV programs for domestic U.S. consumption in a reform initially criticized as a green light for U.S. domestic propaganda efforts. So what just happened?...