Terrorism, Politics and Media Controversy by Yahya Birt
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“Today?s global media is the most effective weapon around for both governments and terrorists ? despite the presence of WMDs” writes Yahya Birt on a new post on his blog. You can read the rest of the excellent article on YahyaBirt.com
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I hope you find this article interesting. It exposes the Pentagon planting fake news stories in the American and Iraqi media.
‘…This has been acknowledged in the U.S. Defense Department’s Information Operations Roadmap, a 74-page document approved in 2003 by Donald Rumsfeld. It noted that “information intended for foreign audiences, including public diplomacy and PSYOP [psychological operations], increasingly is consumed by our domestic audience and vice-versa. PSYOP messages disseminated to any audience… will often be replayed by the news media for much larger audiences, including the American public.”
“This ought to be of particular concern to Americans because the Pentagon’s doctrine for psychological operations specifically contemplates “actions to convey and (or) deny selected information and indicators to foreign audiences to influence their emotions, motives, and objective reasoning. … In various ways, perception management combines truth projection, operations security, cover, and deception, and psyops.”‘
http://www.kavkaz.org.uk/eng/content/2006/09/17/5607.shtml