[the invisib1e hand]

German soldiers described this sh!t in the last year of WWII; as they were being pushed back to Berlin itself, they were fed a diet of nonsense about victories elsewhere that weren’t real (but couldn’t be verified at the time), and had to listen to their “Obama” babble about superweapons that would turn the tide. By the end of the war he was giving orders to armies that didn’t even exist anymore; the army was smart enough to know that he was an incompetent nut, and they tried to stop him with the bomb plot.

Spin-doctoring is the world's oldest profession, and as I undertstand it, propaganda is well-known tool of war. Napolean said, "A dozen newspapers are more to be feared than all the bayonets in France" or something like that. I found reference to this in McLuhan's "Understanding Media" but lo, not a trace of it on Google.

Who you gonna believe....?

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

I found several references on Google right off searching on “Napeleon quote newspapers”.

What came up was: “Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.”