InterestedParticipant
01-26-2009, 05:21 PM
Propaganda....
The first company to come out of the block overtly selling psychological operations
to any one with a large enough wallet. Truth, what truth?
Strategic Communication Laboratories (http://www.scl.cc/home.php)
33 St James's Square,
London SW1Y 4JS,
United Kingdom
From SCL's website:
In a world where the perception is the reality, all countries need to have
the capability to manage their own perceptual alignment – otherwise
someone else will.
"Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment nothing can fail. Without it
nothing can succeed. He who molds public opinion is greater than he who enacts
laws."
- President Abraham Lincoln
Media Coverage of SCL:
Psy-ops propaganda goes mainstream (http://media2.washingtonpost.com/media/slate/Podcasts/Slate_05092001.mp3) (Slate.com audio)
You Can't Handle the Truth (http://www.slate.com/id/2126479/) (Slate.com)
the Hearts and Minds Agency (http://www.spinwatch.org.uk/blogs-mainmenu-29/evel-spinoff-mainmenu-34/3215-the-hearts-and-minds-agency) (Spin Watch)
SCL Comes Out at an Arms Fair (http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Strategic_Communication_Laboratori es)
SCL made its public debut in September 2005 with a glitzy exhibit occupying prime real estate at Defense Systems & Equipment International 2005, or DSEI, the United Kingdom's largest showcase for military technology. The main attraction was a full-scale mock-up of its ops center, running simulations ranging from natural disasters to political coups," Sharon Weinberger writes for Slate.
The elaborate booth included actors, flashing computer screens and a "a dark-suited man with a wireless microphone [pacing] like a carnival barker, narrating the scenarios." One of which features a "sophisticated campaign of mass deception" that uses a fictitious chemical plant accident as a ploy to minimize the spread of smallpox."If your definition of propaganda is framing communications to do something that's going to save lives, that's fine," says Mark Broughton, SCL's public affairs director. "That's not a word I would use for that."
The first company to come out of the block overtly selling psychological operations
to any one with a large enough wallet. Truth, what truth?
Strategic Communication Laboratories (http://www.scl.cc/home.php)
33 St James's Square,
London SW1Y 4JS,
United Kingdom
From SCL's website:
In a world where the perception is the reality, all countries need to have
the capability to manage their own perceptual alignment – otherwise
someone else will.
"Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment nothing can fail. Without it
nothing can succeed. He who molds public opinion is greater than he who enacts
laws."
- President Abraham Lincoln
Media Coverage of SCL:
Psy-ops propaganda goes mainstream (http://media2.washingtonpost.com/media/slate/Podcasts/Slate_05092001.mp3) (Slate.com audio)
You Can't Handle the Truth (http://www.slate.com/id/2126479/) (Slate.com)
the Hearts and Minds Agency (http://www.spinwatch.org.uk/blogs-mainmenu-29/evel-spinoff-mainmenu-34/3215-the-hearts-and-minds-agency) (Spin Watch)
SCL Comes Out at an Arms Fair (http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Strategic_Communication_Laboratori es)
SCL made its public debut in September 2005 with a glitzy exhibit occupying prime real estate at Defense Systems & Equipment International 2005, or DSEI, the United Kingdom's largest showcase for military technology. The main attraction was a full-scale mock-up of its ops center, running simulations ranging from natural disasters to political coups," Sharon Weinberger writes for Slate.
The elaborate booth included actors, flashing computer screens and a "a dark-suited man with a wireless microphone [pacing] like a carnival barker, narrating the scenarios." One of which features a "sophisticated campaign of mass deception" that uses a fictitious chemical plant accident as a ploy to minimize the spread of smallpox."If your definition of propaganda is framing communications to do something that's going to save lives, that's fine," says Mark Broughton, SCL's public affairs director. "That's not a word I would use for that."