Diplomacy vs Propaganda (John H Brown)
My blog entry
What is Al Jazeera? and What's Al Hurra? at
http://xahlee.blogspot.com/2011/02/what-is-al-jazeera-and-whats-al-hurra.html
, is quoted by ex US diplomat John H. Brown at his blog at http://publicdiplomacypressandblogreview.blogspot.com/2011/02/february-27.html
Here's a quote from Wikipedia about John H Brown:
Brown, who received a Ph.D. in Russian History from Princeton University in 1977, was a member of the U.S. Foreign Service from 1981 until March 10, 2003 where he resigned over the war in Iraq;
Here's a video linked from his blog site, about the issue of diplomacy vs propaganda:
May 6, 2008
John H. Brown resigned from the diplomatic corp in March 2003 in oppostion to the war in Iraq.
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In the video, he lists 4 things about propaganda:
- Simplification of the issues.
- Constant repetition of slogans that's often unconnected. (e.g. weapons of mass destruction, regime change)
- Demonization of the “other”. (e.g. the “evil”, the “other”)
- Stretching the truth, to unacceptable limits.