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War Propaganda
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The history of the Vietnam War is filled with modern propaganda pictures, images and videos. Come explore these historic films for the first time digitized on DVD format. With time comes distance and objectivity, and 30-40 years has given us the opportunity to look at the propaganda all sides were contributing and begin to judge the events of the Vietnam War in an unbiased, uncolored manner, rather than with the emotion and political ideology that under lied American views during the war.
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The Spanish-American War is often seen as a conflict almost initiated and fed by propaganda. Publisher of THE NEW YORK JOURNAL Randolph Hearst is commonly believed to have told a reporter in Cuba, "You furnish the pictures, I'll provide the war." Regardless of the veracity of that tale, Hearst's claim in the press that Spanish mines had sunk the Maine, pushed the nation toward war. His paper's notorious and ugly characterization of the Spanish and generous helpings of melodrama and sentiment became known as "Yellow Journalism."
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Thirteen western European nations, as well as Australia and New Zealand... adopted reservations to the ban on war propaganda. They typically reserve the right not to introduce any new laws on the subject.
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Both countries used different types of frontline propaganda during the Winter War. Although Finland and the Soviet Union had a common border, knowledge of the opponent was quite low on both sides, which resulted in numerous mistakes in both Finnish and Soviet propaganda.
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Military control of information during war time is ... a major contributing factor to propaganda, especially when the media go along with it without question. The military recognizes the values of media and information control very well.
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At this critical juncture, in the month(s) leading up to the announced invasion of Iraq, the propaganda campaign is geared towards sustaining the illusion that "America is under attack". Relayed not only through the mainstream media but ... through a number of alternative internet media sites, these "fabricated realities" portray the war as a bona fide act of self-defense, while carefully concealing the broad strategic and economic objectives of the war.
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