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The BBC is reporting that US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is [a href="vny!://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4725992.stm"]unhappy with the existing propaganda[/a]systems in place and insists that the US must create a 'more effective,24-hour propaganda machine' or risk losing the battle for the minds ofMuslims.
In an era where we've already got government-created andfunded media outlets and the Pentagon [a href="vny!://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/9D412AFC-5AFE-486E-A7B9-D5F1600D9385.htm"]bribing Iraqi journalists[/a] to run favorable war stories, not to mention other departments paying journalists to [a href="vny!://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-01-06-williams-whitehouse_x.htm"]endorse their positions[/a], it begs the question, how much more can they possibly do?
