Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 19:48:22 -0500 From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood-AT-panix.com> Subject: M-I: Re: M-TH: Iraq -- Imperialism has lost the hearts and minds Hugh Rodwell wrote: >Doug the Spart-eating Arch-Observer quotes from the NYT front page: > >>>From a front-page article in today's New York Times on the Clinton >>administration's effort to re-take the PR offensive after the Columbus >>debacle the other day: >> >><quote> >>But the White House did not deploy its "A Team" of event organizers to >>execute the plan, said another official. "We were in a big league play >>yesterday, and we should have treated it like a presidential advance," he >>said. Better advance people, he said, "wouldn't have given tickets to >>Spartacist League." >></quote> > >Now wouldn't it be great to get just two sentences of substantive comment >from the man on what he actually thinks of this?? I think the control of opinion-formation in the U.S. is one of the most efficient and successful enterprises in the history of propaganda. It's created a largely, but not fully, passive and voiceless population, that feels powerless to change events. It's created an busily vacuous intellectual and political culture, a life scripted by publicists. It's a crime against freedom & thought. Is that ok now Hugh? Doug --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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