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2007-05-31 Iraq

Fallujah Still Dangerous - 25 Police Recruits Blown Up

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Posted by Glenmore 2007-05-31 07:25|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 This was no doubt in response to Joe Klein's "NewsWeak" piece. This is less an attack than a sign that this war is first and foremost an info war. AQ uses the media far better than we. In fact, they play OUR media like a Stradivarius against us. I would urge all candidates, both Dems and Repubs, to reflect on ways to win in this arena. Win the Info War, in our media and theirs, on the Internet and in the Cafes and Schools, and the ~~Cockroaches~~ Lions of Islam are doomed to the very Gehenna to which they would condemn us.

Posted by doc 2007-05-31 08:01|| 2007-05-31 08:01|| Front Page Top

#2 Excellent diagnosis, doc.

Al Qaeda and the Media-Industrial Complex are de facto allies in this conflict. In broadest terms, that complex includes news, entertainment, advertising, and their ideological auxiliaries, the media-based activist industry and the leftist academic community. Since the 1960s, they have reflexively sided with, and exploited, any force that showed the ability to undermine those institutions and values that stand in the way of complete cultural dominance by the mass media.

The term "media-industrial complex" is my own but the related concepts are based on work done by Thomas M. Frank in his landmark cultural history, The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism
Taken together, the elements of the Media Industrial Complex constitute an unelected, unaccountable, and often utterly depraved shadow government.

Their power and agenda are not, of course, the result of some overarching conspiracy (though complicity with enemy forces is often concious), but of the internal culture of the media industries as that internal culture has developed since the early 1960s.

In many ways, the media don't work for the terrorists, the terrorists work for them.

(BTW, I am well aware of Frank's status as a major lefty. This really only enhances the credibility of his message, since he is essentially biting the hand that feeds his end of the ideological spectrum.)

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2007-05-31 18:01|| 2007-05-31 18:01|| Front Page Top

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