The Fine Art Of Propaganda

Jan 3rd, 2011

Peter Maass writes in The New Yorker about one of the great photo-ops during the early days of the Iraq War and it's manipulation by American media outlets: 

"The toppling of Saddam’s statue turned out to be emblematic of primarily one thing: the fact that American troops had taken the center of Baghdad. That was significant, but everything else the toppling was said to represent during repeated replays on television—victory for America, the end of the war, joy throughout Iraq—was a disservice to the truth."