{"id":1522,"date":"2006-08-09T23:40:24","date_gmt":"2006-08-10T04:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=1522"},"modified":"2006-08-09T23:41:33","modified_gmt":"2006-08-10T04:41:33","slug":"israel-hezbollah-media-and-psych-op","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=1522","title":{"rendered":"Israel-Hezbollah:  Media and Psych Op"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not much tonight again, but I did want to point y&#8217;all towards a couple of interesting looks at the propaganda fight around the actual conflict in Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>First, the <a href=\"http:\/\/mypetjawa.mu.nu\/\">Jawa Report<\/a>&#8216;s Dr. Rusty takes a look at Yahoo!News and does <a href=\"http:\/\/mypetjawa.mu.nu\/archives\/184263.php\">some photo counting<\/a>.  It seems that the mainstream media are quite content to carry the propaganda water for Hezbollah&#8217;s &#8220;Oh! The (Lebanese only) humanity!&#8221; theme.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Debbie at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inthebullpen.com\/\">In the Bullpen<\/a> points out an interesting psych op that Israel is employing in region &#8212; the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inthebullpen.com\/archives\/5190\">seizure of Hezbollah&#8217;s own airwaves<\/a> twice daily to counter Hezbollah&#8217;s message.  Chad Evans chimes in on the post with video.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s like SNL&#8217;s old <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Weekend_Update\">Weekend Update<\/a> Point-Counterpoint, only missing Dan Aykroyd&#8217;s exclamation of &#8220;Hassan, you ignorant slut.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not much tonight again, but I did want to point y&#8217;all towards a couple of interesting looks at the propaganda fight around the actual conflict in Lebanon. First, the Jawa Report&#8216;s Dr. Rusty takes a look at Yahoo!News and does some photo counting. It seems that the mainstream media are quite content to carry the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-our-media","category-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}