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impeach the gop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-12-04 02:49 PM
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propaganda-driven “blog trolling”
Maybe you’ve wondered: What kind of operations does the U.S. Government conduct in the line of pumping “favorable” propaganda regarding Iraq?

And, more importantly, since this is such an unpopular War: Would the runaway Republican Government dare conduct below-board ops and psy-ops not just in Iraq, but right here in the U.S?

In the blogosphere, the practice of “blog trolling”—touting the “right” messengers with a mix of above-board, official recognition and below-board, ideology-based, sustained pump-priming, to generate a following for propagandistic messengers far beyond their natural level of interest—and to perchance achieve key mainstream media placement without normal media vetting—can “celebritize” a messenger or messengers, and help to turn bloggers into propagandists.

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