[prion]

This new reality implies that Western governments, whether the United States in Iraq or Israel in Lebanon, needs to see public relations as part of their strategy. Hizbullah has adapted to this new fact of life but those governments have not.

This isn't that new. The Palestinians started it, hiring themselves a PR firm and going from hated terrorists to tragic victims in a couple of decades.

With any luck, the new new reality is that we have alternative media to expose the clumsiness of the propaganda. Will you ever forget the first time you saw a picture of dozens of photographers surrounding one Palestinian kid throwing a rock? Will Reuters ever quite wash off the stink of Adnan Hajj? And how touchy will that make them?

[Jameison]

"With any luck, the new new reality is that we have alternative media to expose the clumsiness of the propaganda"

Amen to that.

[wildandcrazyrussian]

In the early 1990's, the Bosnian Muslims hired a PR firm (I believe either Ruden Finn or Hill Knowlton) to do precisely that same kind of fabrication of media images, and the US government actually took the Islamic-terrorist side against the Christians in the Bosnian civil war - and all claims made by the Islamic-terrorist side have been shown to be utter fabrications.

The mass media have proven themselves to be willing accomplices of evil, and are morally no better than Leni Riefenstahl.