But they're the ones with the armies and the real weapons of mass destruction, the ones who invaded Iraq and lied about their reasons because they didn't think the public would buy their war if they told the truth, and they're the ones you seem to be defending.
And your present target, the L.A. Times, along with most of the other mainstream media the right-wingers love to hate, did little to challenge those false reasons. So I'm sorry if you don't like what they're saying at this late date.
As for that old "politically correct" buzzword, those quickest to use it seem not to know or care that it begs the question, "In whose politics?" When they use it, their unexamined premise is that the "politics" is all on the other guy's side while their own mind is innocent as the child who doesn't see the emperor's clothes. To defend the Bush/Cheney regime's war effort with it is ludicrously self-defeating considering that this administration is the politically dirtiest in living memory, and this war one of the sleaziest in U.S. history.
...whether you call it "spinning the media" or not, is that they want to control who finds out what, both inside Iraq and outside of it. That cannot be good news -- not for the "democracy" we're allegedly trying to build in Iraq, nor, in the long run, for what's left of our democracy at home.
I can't help but note your Orwellian use of the words "politically correct news." I think of that as meaning what our political and military leaders approve of even if it's a passel of lies. You seem to define it as meaning what Big Brother doesn't control, even if it's true.
LA Times would like you to think that Information Operations, or IO, is simply another name for propaganda. Perhaps some brief research on their part is in order.
Information Operations includes Psychological Operations, but PYSOP is not propaganda, either. Words mean things--something that today's politically correct news media would rather have us forget.
Getting government entitities to work together should be a goal--and the US government is often criticized when they don't. In this case, Petreaus wants to improve the ability of his staff to get the job done, and LA Times decides that is something to get up in arms about. Despite what the LA Times would have you believe, Information Operations is not about spinning the media.
Unfortunately, much of our news media has become the unwitting, or witting, purveyors of our enemies propaganda--and yet nobody is up in arms about it. Wake up LA Times.
There has to be an Oscar for General Electric who was out in front of the Greenwash with their Ecomaginayry view of the corporate culture, long ago. GE has toxic sites everywhere and as they sluff off the $10 million to finish getting their PCB's out of the Hudson they're selling cancer diagnostics and telling how they clean water. No mention of the fact that the filtration systems were probably part of a taxpayer remediation project for a toxic event involving GE with PCB's or dioxins to begine with.
Next nomination goes to the Koch Family and friendsters at the Aspen Institute. Sourcewatch has a healthy reference for Aspen but here's a newcomer and I have only gotten to the tip of the dirt here. Lynda Resnick married to Stewart Resnick and they've got a whole healthful food sector that they are using power to shut down little organic farmers, cash in on the premium nut and fruit crops favored by organic consumers and kick start the specialty pesticide business.
Resnick's Roll corporation is Fuji water and Telefloral and his friends are toxic. There will be no more raw almonds because Resnick's salmonila troubles in his factory operations ended in law suits. Bet my bottom dollar his pesticide business links to the law for his factory nuts. Here's a link to some of his connections and the first one to Paramount farming has all the law suit and trail details to go from.
Since pure food is part of the whole green theme it seemed a perfect fit to me. There was also a PR Spin piece on the 7UP and what single toxin they pulled out of that to sell Roundup Ready, genetically altered, high fructose corn syrup and laboratory flavors as "Natural" and the TV commercial shows a farmer holding up a bunch of dangling 7UP cans like they're turnips, when t for toxins is the only natural connection between the ad and reality.
Of course not.
But they're the ones with the armies and the real weapons of mass destruction, the ones who invaded Iraq and lied about their reasons because they didn't think the public would buy their war if they told the truth, and they're the ones you seem to be defending.
And your present target, the L.A. Times, along with most of the other mainstream media the right-wingers love to hate, did little to challenge those false reasons. So I'm sorry if you don't like what they're saying at this late date.
As for that old "politically correct" buzzword, those quickest to use it seem not to know or care that it begs the question, "In whose politics?" When they use it, their unexamined premise is that the "politics" is all on the other guy's side while their own mind is innocent as the child who doesn't see the emperor's clothes. To defend the Bush/Cheney regime's war effort with it is ludicrously self-defeating considering that this administration is the politically dirtiest in living memory, and this war one of the sleaziest in U.S. history.
Very Orwellian indeed! So only the government lies? That's an interesting (and disturbing) concept, especially if you think it true.
...whether you call it "spinning the media" or not, is that they want to control who finds out what, both inside Iraq and outside of it. That cannot be good news -- not for the "democracy" we're allegedly trying to build in Iraq, nor, in the long run, for what's left of our democracy at home.
I can't help but note your Orwellian use of the words "politically correct news." I think of that as meaning what our political and military leaders approve of even if it's a passel of lies. You seem to define it as meaning what Big Brother doesn't control, even if it's true.
LA Times would like you to think that Information Operations, or IO, is simply another name for propaganda. Perhaps some brief research on their part is in order.
Information Operations includes Psychological Operations, but PYSOP is not propaganda, either. Words mean things--something that today's politically correct news media would rather have us forget.
Getting government entitities to work together should be a goal--and the US government is often criticized when they don't. In this case, Petreaus wants to improve the ability of his staff to get the job done, and LA Times decides that is something to get up in arms about. Despite what the LA Times would have you believe, Information Operations is not about spinning the media.
Unfortunately, much of our news media has become the unwitting, or witting, purveyors of our enemies propaganda--and yet nobody is up in arms about it. Wake up LA Times.
There has to be an Oscar for General Electric who was out in front of the Greenwash with their Ecomaginayry view of the corporate culture, long ago. GE has toxic sites everywhere and as they sluff off the $10 million to finish getting their PCB's out of the Hudson they're selling cancer diagnostics and telling how they clean water. No mention of the fact that the filtration systems were probably part of a taxpayer remediation project for a toxic event involving GE with PCB's or dioxins to begine with.
Next nomination goes to the Koch Family and friendsters at the Aspen Institute. Sourcewatch has a healthy reference for Aspen but here's a newcomer and I have only gotten to the tip of the dirt here. Lynda Resnick married to Stewart Resnick and they've got a whole healthful food sector that they are using power to shut down little organic farmers, cash in on the premium nut and fruit crops favored by organic consumers and kick start the specialty pesticide business.
Resnick's Roll corporation is Fuji water and Telefloral and his friends are toxic. There will be no more raw almonds because Resnick's salmonila troubles in his factory operations ended in law suits. Bet my bottom dollar his pesticide business links to the law for his factory nuts. Here's a link to some of his connections and the first one to Paramount farming has all the law suit and trail details to go from.
http://www.politicalfriendster.com/showPerson.php?id=5220&name=Stewart-Resnick
Since pure food is part of the whole green theme it seemed a perfect fit to me. There was also a PR Spin piece on the 7UP and what single toxin they pulled out of that to sell Roundup Ready, genetically altered, high fructose corn syrup and laboratory flavors as "Natural" and the TV commercial shows a farmer holding up a bunch of dangling 7UP cans like they're turnips, when t for toxins is the only natural connection between the ad and reality.
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