Washington Post: Reporters Thought White House Video Was North Korean Propaganda

Newsbusters ^ | June 12, 2018 | P.J. Gladnick

[PJ-Comix]

Pretending they thought it was Nork propaganda as a way to slam Trump.

[Rodm]

WP jumped the shark

[Slyfox]

I think the video is brilliant.

[DoughtyOne]

It is.

Sure slipped it by the press.

[txnativegop]

ditto

[savedbygrace]

WP leads the league in shark jumping.

[morphing libertarian]

it was avery shfrewd move. Why do they want to admit their reports are so ignorant.

[fungoking]

In all fairness, Washington post “reporters” ARE a pretty stupid lot.

[raiderboy]

The communist media is in total rout.

[BenLurkin]

I don’t believe the headline.

Not for one minute.

[Maris Crane]

Propaganda is the only thing present day reporters know.

It’s what they do.

[Jamestown1630]

I thought it was a pretty cool video - I especially liked the shopping cart full of food, and the lights suddenly flashing on in the North.

(I’m not sure how I feel about something this ‘slick’ standing as representative of the US and our values - we are deeper than simple wealth, technology, and power - but it was probably effective for the purposes intended.)

[BenLurkin]

This way the President didn’t have to worry as much about confusion during translations.

Visual imagery avoids choice of words issues

[Ken H]

Jealous, are we, because President Trump is running circles around the previous administration?

[Jamestown1630]

I agree.

[HiTech RedNeck]

I might have shown a bunch of churches too

[Repeal 16-17]

The Liberal Media are in denial about Trump’s abilities, since he announced his candidacy in 2015, and so they can’t accept that he had a successful meeting with Kim Jong-Un.

[Fedora]

That's the kind of propaganda I'd expect from the CIA's favorite propaganda outlet: "In the early years of the Cold War, efforts were made by the governments of the Soviet Union and the United States to use media companies to influence public opinion internationally. Reporter Deborah Davis claimed in her 1979 biography of Katharine Graham, owner of The Washington Post, (Katharine the Great), that the CIA ran an "Operation Mockingbird" during this time.[2] Davis claimed that the International Organization of Journalists was created as a Communist front organization and "received money from Moscow and controlled reporters on every major newspaper in Europe, disseminating stories that promoted the Communist cause."[3] Davis claimed that Frank Wisner, director of the Office of Policy Coordination (a covert operations unit created in 1948 by the United States National Security Council) had created Operation Mockingbird in response to the International Organization of Journalists, recruiting Phil Graham from The Washington Post to run the project within the industry. According to Davis, "By the early 1950s, Wisner 'owned' respected members of The New York Times, Newsweek, CBS and other communications vehicles."[4] Davis claimed that after Cord Meyer joined the CIA in 1951, he became Operation Mockingbird's "principal operative."[5]" Operation Mockingbird

[HiTech RedNeck]

Or that it was this easy.

This was basically the secular equivalent of the hellfire sermon followed by the gospel pitch. And now Kim is a believer, at least in secular salvation. Where would Donald have learned that? Probably not in his old PCUSA.

[CJ Wolf]

It also allowed this simple message to get out into every country watching. Very slick. Well placed. Trump is changing the world.