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To: Mark Adams who wrote (41630)	11/17/2003 8:29:22 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

Mark, Re: How little we know how much effort expended in the production of sound bites, capable of swaying support in one direction or another. That our 'regularly scheduled programming' is that, indeed. Brainwashing is an interesting topic. It is being perfected in the U.S. as you suggest. As an antidote to such mind control efforts by the government and the corporations, I recommend regular doses of PR Watch: prwatch.org They have a weekly email alert that is well written, highly condensed and yet comprehensive. These are the folks who blew the covers off the phony "babies tossed out of incubators" in Kuwait story in 1991. They're quite expert at cutting through the psyops fog. **** Another item that crossed my desk today introduced me to the term "perception management". Here it is in context: "The body dumps that have been unearthed across Central America are thus little different from the mass graves blamed on Saddam Hussein in Iraq, except in Central America they represented the dark side of U.S. foreign policy and received far less U.S. press scrutiny. Another lesson learned from the 1980s was the importance of shielding the American people from the ugly realities of a U.S.-backed "dirty war" by using P.R. techniques, which became known inside the Reagan administration as 'perception management.'" Source: consortiumnews.com The gist of this interesting article is that the Bushies are seeking death squads in Iraq to take over the dirty work from the all-too-visible U.S. Army, before the media coverage ruins Bush's reelection chances. Ciao