Good paper.

65 years ago everyone knew "Lord Haw Haw" and "Tokyo Rose" were the enemy. Today, their modern counterparts live here...and are paid by the taxpayers.

The fascists of todays' world don't have to defeat us on the propaganda front, we're doing it to ourselves.

Our enemy knows how to realy use this new weapon...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,270457,00.html

Doing It Ourselves?
No but there certainly are plenty of useful TOOLS in the MSM!

"this paper describes the trajectory of the media from objective observer to fiery advocate,"

Awwww I don't buy this....since industrial era Fleet street publishers fist got the idea that one did not have to belong to the elite ruling class to have a voice just as strong....and employed mass media ( printed) as an advocacy vehicle for populist idealism, we have seen generations publishers/journalists adovcate their own agendas and axe grinding...

...From fleet stret pushing liberal social reform in the edwardian days to the big NYC, Chicago dailies aligned with prohibition, to the Hurst news chain pushing the Spanaish American war all are a classic case of advocacy media....same for the scopes trial to push Darwinism...each decade has seen one form of advocacy journalism/publishing or another....it is NOT a new phenomenon.

Print media has traditionally been the most employed method of advocacy journalism but now video and radio are in the game as well...even the new media "advocates"....this does not alarm me as long as 2 factors are present to encourage critical analysis of "advocacy" messaging.

1) there is diversity of opinion readily available in a easily accessed public market place of ideas.

2) The "advocate journalist" does not disguise himself as unbiased or make any claims his copy is in any way balanced or fully insifgtful.

"Advocacy" in media has been with us a long time...it is the lack of diversity of opinion ( caused by concentrated ownership and politically correct censoring dogma) which has been responsible for this new sanitized lock-step conformity in journalism and a lack of diversity of opinion/advocacy.

Secondly, intellectual dishonesty in journalists in pretending to be "progressive" or "unbiased" while engaging in narrow-minded axe grinding or advocacy has fooled the readership into believing "news" sources are not defacto partisan "advocates".

This is why the internet has florished...there may be advocacy on internet publishing but at least most e-publishers do not make pretense of non bias and there is the freedom of a diversity of opinion and counter argument for any "advocacy".

Media “Openness” isn’t simply a problem in war , it is also the case in commerce. The G&M editorial has this to say today, prompted by the Alcan takeover bid and others.

“"No one is arguing that Canada should adopt stiff protectionist measures to prevent foreign takeovers. That road leads to inefficient industries, higher costs and uncompetitive companies. But that does not mean the federal government should simply say nothing while such strategically important sectors as mining and metals are gutted by foreign competitors. It would be hard enough for Canadian companies to fend off takeovers on an even playing field. But Ottawa's complacency -- and such ad hoc policies as its ill-advised decision to phase out the tax deductibility of interest incurred in foreign expansions -- has contributed to an uneven playing field. If the government has no problem with the disappearance of so many major Canadian companies in such a short time, at the very least it ought to explain why."

Note the duplicity of the editors who say:

They aren’t arguing for protectionist measures , then they say “while such strategically important sectors as mining and metals are gutted by foreign competitors” . Got that? “gutted”. No subtle bias there right? Strategic? For what? War? But I thought we were only UN peacekeepers.

Note how they say that what has contributed to this unlevel playing field causing the disappearance of Canadian companies is the “ill-advised decision to phase out the tax deductibility of interest incurred in foreign expansions” that was just introduced in March 2007. I knew the markets were fast, I didn’t know they could behave retroactively.

It’s all a bunch of distorted bunk , just like Y2Kyoto, we are about to see Y2Alcan.

The media have always been scummy vermin but previously they would have set aside their agendas and joined with the home team for wars. They weren't openly treasonous.

In both world wars they actively censored themselves when they weren't being subjected to war censers in the military (which the media accepted and didn't whine to the supreme court about.)

Now the vermin have degenerated to the point where they're actively publishing state secrets and sabotaging the war efforts because they don't like the guy in office.

It's shameful, treasonous, belligerent, scummy behaviour. The media is now without honesty, ethics, integrity or morals of any sort.

I say line them up, give them a cigarette and a blindfold and shoot them at dawn.

There can be no rights to press freedom for those who deny corresponding responsibilities.

...Main Stream Media - useful idiots

Lenin would be proud.

I agree with Warwick,
I'm all for civil liberties but at some point the buck has to stop.
The media have made North America virtually combat ineffective, (they can't do anything with out mass outrage)

The media, mainly television, has made our society a nation of mentally and spiritually numb, pleasure seeking sheep and we're all susceptible to it.

As Marshall McLuahn was saying towards the end of his life: "it's time to turn the television off."

CBC runs the current story on six militant islamists being arrested in NJ .... They change the wording of the original AP report which clearly describes the culprits as Islamic Militants to " Six foreign nationals " and run it under the headline "FBI Arrests Six in Alleged Plot....."
CBC
Need any more reason to believe that these self appointed censors are only intent on presenting their distorted views??
The continued soft peddling of reports involving Islamists is just one aspect of this!

I listened UBC prof Michael Byers on BC's most powerful radio station, CKNW, just last night.

He's quick to point out his CV, in order to establish his authority to pontificate on Canada as a nation at war. But until a caller questioned him, he neglected to point out his close association with the NDP. He is a financial contributor to the party and an advisor to NDP defence critic 'Big Guns' Dawn Black.

When called on the issue he became defensive, pointing out his right to free association and in an attempt to appear non-partisan, claimed to have advised all parties. I'll be e-mailing him today for proof of that claim.

I was completely disgusted with Byers. According to him the war is not just unwinnable, but already lost, with things getting worse rather than better. He went on to convict the Cdn. gov't and our troops of being parties to torture, claiming that troops stood outside of rooms listening as prisoners were hung upside down. After making these outrageous and unsubstantiated charges he was taken to task and changed his tune to "allegations" of complicity - following up his allegation with a definitive statement: "We have to make sure this doesn't happen AGAIN." - which to me means he considers his prior statement as fact rather than allegation.

If we pay substantial amounts of salary to these tenured buffoons while allowing them to indoctrinate our young, the least they could do is be upfront about any overt political affiliations.

Do you notice that the people who are least honest and most prone to undeclared conflicts of interest are almost always on the left? The right has some, but they're scarce.

But no guff thats the whole point about propoganda its ment to deceive and weakin the will of your enemy.Please make no mistake the far left perceives most things western as worthy of their hatred and unmitigated scorn.

It seems warwick the people on the right have so many interests they are bound to have more conflicts of interest than the left who only have the interest of envy which is certainly used for conflict.

look at this slogan blaming the west.

http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/index.php?menuID=2&subID=942&p=2

The media has always been thus, What has changed is education and context. Education because the teachers are taught to teach without any real knowledge in said subject. This leaves the teacher lacking context and thus the student with out any context in which to put the material being received. This has led to a mass of 'educated' people with a complete lack of critical thought capability.

WALTER KRONKITE was the best producer of propeganda the vietcong ever had

Uncle Walt here: Today, in Vietnam, the Democrats ....... blah, blah, blah, Ho, Ho, Ho, ...

... and that's the way it is, and shall be, UNWorld without end. Glory be to Gaia, Mao Strong, and me: Walter Cronkite. Amen-Women. Now, here are the collection plates; give 'til your wallet bleeds.
...-

A speech by Walter Cronkite -
United Nations, national sovereignty and the future of the world
upon receiving the Norman Cousins Global Governance Award,
on October 19, 1999, at the UN Delegates Dining Room [...]

"Today we must develop federal structures on a global level. We need a system of enforceable world law-- a democratic federal world government--to deal with world problems."
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/United_Nations/Chronkite_UN.html
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The media in Canada reports on the Black trial pretty much assume he is guilty, contrast that to the alleged stories about an alleged terrorist plot by allegedly seventeen alleged terrorists allegedly from Toronto allegedly last alleged summer.

God I hope Conrad goes free just to see Peter Mansbridge break down and cry on the National.

"God I hope Conrad goes free just to see Peter Mansbridge break down and cry on the National."

Of course. If it isn't reported by Mansbridge, it didn't really happen anyway.

I think Marvin Kalb has destroyed his academic career. Suicide by inconvenient paper.

The Black trial has nothing to do with law: it is theatre, and Black is the bad guy in the plot. He is done like Snidely Whiplash.

I don't have enough knowledge to comment one way or the other on Conrad Black's trial. But I find it interesting that people are quickly coming to his defense who normally denounce the corporate media, with him being the a poster boy for that industry. So it's a crime for the corporate media to be biased, unless they are biased your own way - then we can ignore their alleged corporate malfeasance, shareholders be damned.