Effective Propaganda: Big Lies, Half Truths, Omission, Imperceptible Repetition
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Effective Propaganda: Big Lies, Half Truths, Omission, Imperceptible Repetition. The Role of “Leftists” and Orwell’s “Crimestop”
By Edward Curtin
Global Research
“And thus the U.S. left leadership sits in the left chamber of the hall of mirrors, complaining about conspiracy theories while closing its eyes to actual conspiracies crucial to contemporary imperialism.” – Graeme MacQueen, Beyond Their Wildest Dreams: September 11, 2001 and the American Left
It is well known that effective propaganda works through slow, imperceptible repetition. “The slow building up of reflexes and myths” is the way Jacques Ellul put it in his classic, Propaganda. This works through commission and omission.
I was reminded of this recently after I published a newspaper editorial on Martin ...