--On Tuesday, August 29, 2006 08:16:48 -0400 Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:
If it's less disinformation if you know they're lying, is it more disinformation when a large percentage of the population actually believes hear and soul that the organization is telling the truth? (Yes, people in the US will believe the strangest things - apparently 25% of us actually believe that Adam and Eve rode out of the Garden of Eden on a dinosaur - as literal fact.)
And 25% of the population believes Hezbollah is a humanitarian organization - because that's what the "non-biased" media (CNN, CBS, NBC, ABC, BBC, etc., etc., ad nauseum, adfinitum) tells them. At least Fox tells you what their bias is, as oppposed to the many anti-semitic organizations that claim neutrality but blame Israel for all the problems in the world and report Hezbollah propaganda as if ti was "news" without even bothering to check to see if it's true.
Paul Schmehl (pauls@xxxxxxxxxxxx) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
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