Was the toy bomb agitprop?


Just who gets to decide?
Yesterday a reader named Laney thought that the story about the doll grenade was propaganda. It is certainly possible, and we know that the Pentagon is paying to plant stories.

After I read the comment, I took a look at her homepage and I have been thinking about it.

First, the toy bomb story could be a plant. It could even be a plant by someone other than the U.S. government. If it is, I will certainly retract it on this blog.

But I am one of those people who has been reading memri.org for translations, and believe me, there is a ton of propaganda directed against the United States on a daily basis. Why isn't anyone calling that to account?

Back in the 2004 election, I certainly wanted to know why it seemed that George Bush's service record was fair game, but John Kerry's was off-limits, even though John Kerry was running as a war hero.

Not all that long ago, the New York Times ran a bowdlerized version of a letter that a serviceman wrote. Why wasn't that propaganda?

I guess this is my issue. We agree that propaganda is a bad thing, but some people are only too willing to overlook it when it serves their purposes.

Why does that have a higher "moral standard?"

— NeoWayland

Posted: Thu - December 1, 2005 at 05:25 AM  Tag


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