I have two personal Kennedy nearnesses. One I mentioned a while back, the other is that I shook Ted's hand after a talk he gave a few years ago and really felt here is the old lion.
Can't make myself go read all of the news analysis (gack) on this, so instead I'm going through email, and there's a piece in yesterday's Secrecy News about the DoD "clarifying" it's doctrine on psychological operations.
It endorses a new, negative definition of the term “propaganda,” which had formerly been used in a neutral sense to refer to “Any form of communication in support of national objectives designed to influence the opinions, emotions, attitudes, or behavior of any group in order to benefit the sponsor, either directly or indirectly.” From now on, propaganda will refer only to what the enemy does: “Any form of adversary communication, especially of a biased or misleading nature, designed to influence the opinions, emotions, attitudes, or behavior of any group in order to benefit the sponsor, either directly or indirectly.”Bummer that the military has joined the (rest of the country) (the Senate) (your noun here) on this.
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