Tag Archives: Media

Psyops training

By alex | Published: 4/10/2003
Luckily, we already know how to win the hearts and minds of a people, and were training experts in this in 1968. Consider: Narrator: This man is the expert on the subject. His name is Leo Hamilton, and he is a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army. Earlier today, he was designated the Psychological […]
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Embedded blowback

By alex | Published: 3/25/2003
Folks are beginning to wonder whether a journalist who is “embedded” is likely to have an objective view of the war. The answer to this seems obvious to me: if the Pentagon thought embedded journalists would make the military look bad, they wouldn’t have come up with the idea! But I noticed something today. This […]
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Cut-ups

By alex | Published: 3/24/2003
There is something strange about the juxtaposition of images on the Most Viewed Photos page from Yahoo! News these days. Today it is soldiers, Iraqi casualties, and the Oscars.
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George’s SUV

By alex | Published: 1/9/2003
Arianna Huffington, as annoyed as I am by the “your drug money funds terrorists” commercials (how about “your tax dollars fund the American arms industry and provide weapons directly to terrorists”), has started the detroit project, aimed at making explicit the links between gas guzzling and the “axis of evil.” The PSAs (in Realplayer: George […]
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