Sunday, July 20, 2008

The Lincoln Group

As early thesis reading, I'm breezing through When the Press Fails, a pretty solid account of the American media's lapdog days after 9/11.

One of the more enraging discussions in the book regards the Lincoln Group, a PR firm paid by the Pentagon to place pro-US stories in Iraqi newspapers. It's old news, but it came as news to me.

Read more about it here.


It's a return to the good old days of "grey propaganda," when the CIA planted anti-Mossadegh articles in American and Iranian newspapers, in hopes of framing Iran's progressive prime minister as an unpopular Communist. For those not familiar with the story, major spoiler ahead: It worked.

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