Censorship and Propaganda
Thought Criminal has a good round up of censorship issues.
Have you run into a censor lately? If not, you probably don't get out much. Or perhaps you just don't recognize censorship when you see it.and makes the point quite nicely ..
Here are some examples just from the past few days. Look for similar examples in your own neighborhood.
The internal censor defines individual values; the government censor defiles individual freedom.
Censorship defiles freedom and mocks the free flow of information that is necessary in the modern world and so does media propaganda.
Propaganda is worse than censorship, the total blackout of news about certain topics which ensures that the people remain totally uninformed, than a flood of disinformation based propaganda which distorts people's perceptions - so that while they think they are well informed - they are ill-informed to the point of distorting reality?
Censorship and propaganda - two essentials tools when you are fighting a New Cold War - so it is no surprise that they are taking center stage in the MSM spin-wars that accompany the Middle East conflict.
Censorship and propaganda - two halves of the (spinning) coin - and we can expect things to get worse rather than better - real soon now ....
Tags: censorship, propaganda, free speech, disinformation, msm, new cold war, reuters, hezbollah, fauxtography, pallywood