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Here is a fascinating article from Rolling Stone about one of the chief propogandists behind the invasion of Iraq. Yes, Rolling Stone sucks, but this is a great article about information management and the manipulation of perception.
posted by Samwick @ 3:51 AM
8 Comments:
At 4:15 PM,
Damien said…
Hey Stone has some great (well in most cases good) articles. Mind you i'm a guy who thought that Vanity fair was a chic mag, great, great articles (honestly get a subscription).
At 10:27 PM,
Sheryl said…
Great article. I'll pass it one!!
Good that it is in the Rolling Stone, but I think it needs to be in something even more mainstream, such as Time Magazine. Something that would show up in doctor's offices.
At 10:27 PM,
Sheryl said…
Pass it on, I mean. X-)
At 12:45 AM,
Samwick said…
Actually, RS does have some good article, but, like Dadahead said, they're never about the music. Worst Magazine Ever Award: Spin.
I'm with you Sheryl, I wish more news organizations would pick up on basic stories like this...psyops being used in the US...not a surprise, but newsworthy to say the least.
At 5:13 AM,
Sheryl said…
Spin. The only Spin magazine I have heard of was a table tennis magazine, but I imagine you are talking about a different publication. X-)
Good and bad magazines...Hmmmm...I like Electronic Musician, but they aren't very good about covering Washington politics. Go figure.
At 5:23 AM,
Sheryl said…
The New Yorker is ok, I guess. For the worst award, there are just too many to choose from.
I actually subscribed to the Nation earlier this year and was rather disappointed. I thought it was going to be an informative, progressive magazine. Instead, it bordered on left-wing propaganda. I am pretty darned left wing, but it was mostly opinions, and some of the "facts" were just plain wrong. I hate it when my side distorts facts.
Like one article said that all the big cities in the US voted for Kerry, or maybe they said only one didn't. Well, I live in Texas, and I can say without a doubt that Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio went red. And that's just one state. So I thought, they aren't doing a great job of screening their articles here.
At 1:49 PM,
Philippe said…
Yes, the Rolling Stone article about the manufacturing of consent for the Iraq invasion was indeed interesting - at least as interesting as the article on Boron
At 5:22 PM,
Snave said…
I let my subscription to RS lapse a number of years ago, and I will be letting my current subscription to Spin lapse as well. For me, Magnet is about the only music magazine I really feel I need. It features a lot of reviews about independent artists, and if you subscribe, you get a free sampler CD of good music by people you have probably never heard of! Fun stuff! It comes out six times a year.
For what it's worth, I also subscribe to Free Inquiry (a secular humanist magazine), Discover (science), Mental Floss (trivia), and two birdwatchers' magazines, Wildbird and Birders' World. Hey come on, birds ARE cool!!
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