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Better they don't embed journalists, and nobody is reporting from the front lines?
by fallingknife 4y ago
Better they don't embed journalists, and nobody is reporting from the front lines?
- arcticbull 4y agoSome would argue that propaganda is worse than nothing. Depending on your objectives, of course. > "The first casualty when war comes is truth" - Hiram W Johnson
- lostlogin 4y agoYes. There is plenty of coverage of Ukraine and we aren’t getting the Iraq war’s fake-but-looks-real coverage that was actually misleading propaganda.
- JumpCrisscross 4y ago> is plenty of coverage of Ukraine and we aren’t getting the Iraq war’s fake-but-looks-real coverage that was actually misleading propaganda You don’t see a small handful of enabling technologies that came to market between the Iraq War and Ukraine?
- lostlogin 4y agoThat’s a good point. But the absence of this tech doesn’t mean we have to have propaganda.