Word: counterpropaganda
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...would have you believe that these deficits are caused by our so-called massive tax cut and defense buildup. Well, that's a real dipsy doodle." According to the President, "Deficits result from sharp increases in nondefense spending." In fact, neither the "propaganda campaign" nor Reagan's counterpropaganda is correct or incorrect, since attributing the deficit to any particular cause is necessarily a matter of political preference. This fiscal year, however, nondefense spending will rise an estimated $14.6 billion, or only 3%. Military costs will go up $33.6 billion, or 18%, while the Administration...
...furnish the equivalent of an entire archive at every attached time-sharing terminal) will have no intrinsic connection with policies of repression at home or abroad; social repression, after all, proceeds through dossier, not crosstabulations. You cannot argue against a tank, but you can counter propaganda with exposure, or counterpropaganda, or even counterargument, all at the cost only of the media involved in the response. One might as well close the Library of Congress because the Pentagon has a library card...
...clamor, the noise > that hurt Russia most came from Andrei Vishinsky himself. "His laugh," wrote the New York Times's Anne O'Hare McCormick, "may have done more to undermine Russian peace propaganda than a whole battery of counterpropaganda . . . For nothing he said or will say to the assembled nations is so revealing and reverberating as that laugh. It goes echoing through the corridors of the U.N. . . . like the snicker of an evil spirit. Perhaps it will echo down the corridors of time. Lesser things than a laugh at the hopes and fears of humanity have brought down...
...Lisbon," went out by radio to the world. It announced that the Cairo meeting had been held, that the conference with Stalin was about to begin. By the time Washington correspondents were sputtering angry explanations to their managing editors, Berlin had picked the Reuters dispatch, was industriously ladling out counterpropaganda...
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