re Re: MDMD: Schwarzkommando alert & The Ghastly Fop

[lorentzen-nicklaus]

Doug Millison schrieb:

> How to tell the "fake" news from the "real"?  I like what Pynchon had to
> say (via translation and re-translation) in that Playboy Japan interview:


> "The problem is the ordinary citizen cannot distinguish the news from the
> propaganda. The problem is the ordinary citizen cannot distinguish the news
> from propaganda. [...] 


   the problem is that most writers (ordinary or not) cannot distinguish the    
   sociology from the poetology ... kai



> In a time of war,  information warfare is rather
> important and even those respected newspapers cannot be trusted. The
> founder of the Daily Mail, which was published 100 years ago in London,
> said 'News is something somebody wants to suppress.  Everything else is
> propaganda.' The information that the reporters can obtain easily is likely
> to be propaganda even when it comes from the White House."
>
> I don't suppose anybody has heard anything about Pynchon bringing a legal
> challenge of some sort or otherwise  acting to disavow the Playboy Japan
> interview?  I have heard from a source who cannot be named but who should
> know, that a Japanese acquaintance talked to the editor of Playboy Japan,
> who told him (my friend's acquaintance) that the reporter who did the
> interview with Pynchon knows Pynchon personally, but the editor wouldn't go
> into detail. He said the piece won't be published in the US edition of
> Playboy.
>
>
> Rich Romeo:
> These lovely fake press, info ops goings on will be initiated at the Office
> of Strategic Influence at the Pentagon.