Various North Korean news and propaganda websites have been defaced or rendered unable to access in recent weeks.
While there is nothing new about the party in power trying to spin the news, the propaganda tools used by incumbents to gain political advantage have grown enormously.
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It goes on to pay tribute to news reels and propaganda films and expressionist shorts and most particularly the work of John Grierson who did this observational documentary film making.
But News is a propaganda machine, part of a right-wing cabal that includes, in addition to Murdoch himself, people like Roger Ailes, president of Fox News, a subsidiary of News Corp.
The internet has literally been littered with news reports about a new propaganda campaign being waged by the head of the Council on American Islamic Relations' (CAIR) Chicago director.
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Technology has made more immediate, more dispersed and more vexing (for many authorities) what has always been a battle between purveyors of news and opinion (or propaganda and "filth") and the state.
"The false news of an explosion at Fordo is Western propaganda ahead of nuclear negotiations to influence their process and outcome, " Saeed Shamseddin Bar Broudi, deputy of the AEOI, was quoted as saying by the state news agency, Irna.
Their propaganda frequently emanates from the pages and airwaves of Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, and top publications and political blogs.
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His rather presciently subtitled 2008 book Flat Earth News: An Award-Winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media is an excellent, compelling read.
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After news of a Twitter account broke, reports surfaced that North Korea was taking its propaganda campaign to Facebook and YouTube, too.
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Petersburg is one of four regions in Russia to impose fines for the dissemination of "gay propaganda" to minors, according to the state-owned Itar-Tass news agency.
But a popular pastime is to spread news and rumours, both true and false, that challenge the official script of government officials and state-propaganda organs.
Press TV, the Iranian government propaganda station, has just been booted off the Sky platform in the UK. Nothing to do with News International you understand, this is Ofcom, the regulatory body, which has banned it.
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