Propaganda 2

De Amerikaanse hoogleraar Gary Leupp schrijft in Counter Punch over de betrokkenheid van de massamedia bij propaganda: 'From Creating Realities to Refusing Questions. White House Liars on the Defensive. In those heady months building up to the War-Based-on-Lies, New York Times columnist Ron Suskind made some remarks about then-White House Communications Director Karen Hughes. These bothered the administration. So a senior official (Karl Rove?) took Suskind to task, and as Suskind recounted later in an October 17, 2004 NYT piece, mocked him for being "in what we call the reality-based community." These are people, the official elaborated, who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." The bullying Bush insider warned against such belief, dismissing it as naïve: "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he declared. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality, we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors ... and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."' http://www.counterpunch.com/leupp12092005.html