I mentioned in an earlier post that Michelle Malkin has excellent coverage about the New York Times'/LA Times' decision to blab intelligence information to Al Qaeda and its fellow travelers. Malkin included in that coverage several WWII posters that were created to warn people to keep their mouths shut for fear of giving useful information to the enemy. Her readers responded with an explosion of photoshopped posters, all of which substitute the two Times and their friends in place of the Nazis. This is my favorite, but you should check them all out.
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Loose LiBs… that was hilarious. Since it was so close to the original, Loose lips.
There seemed to be a lot of illustration work going on back in the 50s and 40s. You had artists painting/drawing newspaper covers, rather than the newspapers using print photos. Given that, well, print photos weren’t in color. Thus illustrated covers probably had a lot of well, traction amongst the population, hence their effectiveness.
The Arab-Palestinian conflict has shown us the power of picture propaganda, a power beyond anything I had ever seen in historical military terms. It is true that propaganda has been used ever since man first lied to deceive his enemy, but the fact is that technology has createdly magnified the power to weight ratio of propaganda. Now it has more bite, like smart bombs. Less for more, one picture equals 10 to the third power words.
http://victorhanson.com/articles/tartakovsky011806.html
Has a good major point illustration of the big propaganda war. And you can apply this to the NYTimes as well.
What I favor as a morale booster and the best way to convince people, is to get their hopes down, then surprise them with a victory. This is akin to the guy who figures that he ain’t getting a surprise party, and is depressed, then he gets a surprise at his party.
I loved how the Democrats jumped on the band wagon when somebody reported the Iraqis were giving asylum to you know, people who had killed Americans. Talk about bait, when the Iraqis said “Ahaha, we fooled you, it wasn’t true”. It’s great to see an enemy think they won, and afterwards they crash and burn. Glee.
Now if someone in the Admin, leaked like some classified program with the name of it to the press, the press would jump on it like shark on whale blubber. Now, if it turned out that the “leak” was wrong… that there was no secret program, that the program in question was actually something for Wounded Warriors… well let’s just say that this would do more devastation to the media than some photoshopped WWII posters.
The President classifies and unclassifies things, he doesn’t need to classify only the important things and unclassify only the non-important things. Everything would be legit, the classification and what not, the only thing that would not be legit is the media’s glee and crazed eagerness for scoops. We’ll give them a scoop all right. Then Fox News gets the real scoop, that out scoops the scooper. Double or nothing.
I liked reading this, where are your contact details hmm?