Propaganda

[David Morris]

Richard,

I think you are just plain ignoring the point Otto's making about Chomsky's 
"Propaganda American Style" article.  The "counter-culture" and the anti-war 
movement may have been products of the failure of the Vietnam-war, but they 
still flew directly against government/establishment intentions, and thus 
Chomsky's alleged US propaganda machine was at best impotent.  That was 
Otto's point: Chomsky's allegations don't hold water.

David Morris

>From: Richard Fiero <rfiero at pophost.com>
>Otto wrote:
>>I see that he [Chomsky] fails to explain how the Vietnam-war could become 
>>so unpopular that it even gave birth to a counterforce, if the US really 
>>had been under that massive propagandistic influence since 1921 as he 
>>asserts in the article generally.
>
>A mental lapse on my part makes it impossible for me to follow the logic in 
>the above.  The Vietnam-war (an undeclared war, certainly) has never been 
>unpopular in the U.S. for any reason other than the fact that the U.S. lost 
>it.  It would be a national treasure had it been won, I'm sure.

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