Are you my dear fellow citizens the victim of propaganda? Today's question: Did Newsweek cause any deaths with its reporting last week? If you anawered yes, then it might be time to start getting your news from somewhere besides the White House Media Whores, or as I prefer d.c.p.r.b.s machine.
From The Light of Reason's Anatomy of Propaganda: "But I find this paragraph buried in the middle of the article even more intriguing:
The appearance of the sign follows a national news story from last week. Newsweek magazine retracted a story reporting that military guards at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay flushed a copy of the Koran down the toilet during interrogation of a detainee. The Newsweek story sent Washington in a frenzy and was blamed for igniting Muslim riots and deaths abroad, including a particularly violent outburst in Afghanistan.
You have to love that passive construction: the Newsweek story �was blamed�� Just exactly who was it who blamed Newsweek �for igniting Muslim riots and deaths abroad�? Oh, gee, who knows. It just kind of happened.
What is significant about this paragraph is that it is simply dropped into the story, without a second thought"
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