Propaganda
Marines taste defeat on football pitch, by the BBC.
Then they proceed to tell about the inhuman conditions of life in Umm Qasr, obviously fault of Saddam.
That is why it is so refreshing to hear from David Leigh, when points out the extremes to whcih the coalition (USA and UK) have gone to stamp out the shadow of truth, using a gullible and willing media:
There is, however, a third level of falsehood beyond this relatively simple spinning which is much more worrying. It is active disinformation.
Some journalists do not seem to realise that the military are trained to use deception. Soldiers are not there to tell the media the truth. It was British "military intelligence" officers who were credited with the false disclosure early in the campaign that there was an "uprising in Basra" - dramatic news which led to a flock of headlines and a stampeding herd of leading articles.
Some journalists do not seem to realise that the military are trained to use deception. Soldiers are not there to tell the media the truth. It was British "military intelligence" officers who were credited with the false disclosure early in the campaign that there was an "uprising in Basra" - dramatic news which led to a flock of headlines and a stampeding herd of leading articles.