Sunday, July 4, 2010

The black art of news management

by John Pilger from Green Left. The author details how the Empire "manages consent" for wars.
How do wars begin? With a “master illusion”, according to Ralph McGehee, one of the CIA’s pioneers in “black propaganda”, known today as “news management”.

In 1983, he described to me how the CIA had faked an “incident” that became the “conclusive proof of North Vietnam’s aggression”.