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more about #propaganda more comments → elinorwhyme: Ah I love The New York Times. Their trend stories are always about a year late. People in England are already so over Keep Calm and Carry On they are ... more » Bristol Cities: Why is it every time is see the letters BBDO or hear about what a "chief creative officer" or creative director thinks about something I just want to ... more » blix: more » Seeräuber Jenny: orwellian . more » tongue-tied: Delusion would have been better. Although you really do need to have a shot of optimism to assume the F train is going to get anywhere within a reason... more » BadUncle: Optimism is what kept me on the F train for the last two days. Despair was my reward. more » Nicole Leapheart: They are better than Septa here in Philly. Not that that's saying much. more » Rozelle’s Bagman: INVISIBUL AIRE KWOTES more » Understater: In Toronto, a single-ride token is gonna cost $3.00 come '10 (which works out to like 2.80 USD) Suck it up, NYCers! more » overunderover: Optimism was needed when the downtown 4/5 crapped out at 8:30 this morning. Please, tell me - how do electric trains stall? more » The Real JR: Because "OBEY" has now become old meme with or without the face on Andre the Giant accompanying. more » goetz: Optimism has an expiration date? more » DinaRonson : Elizabeth Cady Stanton: MTA: Fail. How about one FCKNG day w/o service issues? more » katekate is squared: Wait, wait, wait. Did they pay someone to design this? Please tell me they didn't. more » Xylo: The word "optimism" would not make me feel happy. Try playing Beatles music over your PA system, MTA. more » -
#solutions
Profusion of "Keep Calm and Carry On" posters successfully ends the recession.
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#propaganda
Feeling Better About Fare Increases
The MTA is cheering up New Yorkers by printing the word "optimism" on millions of Metrocards. *NOTE: "Optimism" should not be interpreted as applying to the state of the New York City transportation system itself. [NYT. Pic via] -
#meaculpa
Fox News Apologizes — Again — for Being Fake
Fox News has apologized, for the second time in as many weeks, for boosting crowd sizes at wingnut events with fake footage. Somewhere, Roger Ailes is quietly and deliberately strangling a kitten. More » -
#propaganda
Fox News Applies Its Patented Crowd-Inflating Technique to Sarah Palin
Fox News does not learn: The network is claiming that the crowd at a Sarah Palin event today is "huge," and showing footage from what is almost certainly a McCain-Palin rally as evidence. More » -
#propaganda
How the Nazis Stole Christmas
A museum in Cologne, Germany, has a chilling exhibit on Nazi efforts to remove Christ from Christmas and replace Santa with a Norse god. Expect Glenn Beck to start talking about other people who hate Christmas in about six hours. More » -
#prematuresanctification
Dear White House Flickr Feed: Enough With the Hagiography. Thanks.
At left is President Barack Obama in the Oval Office on October 20. At right are Robert Kennedy (standing) and John F. Kennedy in the Oval Office in April 1962. White House photographer Pete Souza likes Obama too much. -
#art
NEA In Encouraging Artists to Make Art Scandal
BIG HOLLYWOOD investigative reporter Patrick Courrielche asks: "Should the National Endowment for the Arts encourage artists to create art on issues being vehemently debated nationally?" Well, yes. More » -
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Barack Obama's Art Brigades Are Coming for You
Matt Drudge is playing up Andrew Breitbart's latest Obama conspiracy theory—that he is enlisting the aid of the all-powerful visual arts cartel in support of healthcare reform. How long before artist thugs are dragging conservatives from their homes? More » -
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#propaganda
Fox News' Guide to Winning an Argument: Recut the Tape
When a video of Barney Frank rhetorically picking apart a woman who accused him of being a Nazi gets traction, what do the bunch at Fox & Friends do? They recut the tape so he's attacking the poor lass. More » -
#doppelgangers
Edelman Memo or Totalitarian Propaganda?
Massive enemy PR firm Edelman is moving its office from Times Square to Hudson Square. Employees received (and leaked!) a motivational brochure that has a decidedly...propagandist design style. Compare: More » -
#comeuppance
Peddling Reactionary Propaganda Don't Pay What It Used To
Sinclair Broadcast Group, the media company that aggressively used its 57 television stations to distribute lies about John Kerry and did everything it could to make sure George W. Bush won re-election in 2004, is on the verge of bankruptcy. More » -
#propaganda
Barack Obama Is Lying to You About His Puppy
We smelled a story when we read that Bo's favorite food is tomatoes, but we had no idea how deep it went. Not long after we started sniffing it out the whole tissue of lies unraveled. More » -
#propaganda
Someone in Iran (Probably the Government) Isn't Good at Photoshop
A picture that shows that some Photoshopping was used to make the crowd at a pro-Ahmedinejad rally look bigger is racing around the Internet right now. We have no idea where it's from (anyone read Farsi?) but everyone's screaming propaganda!
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#imperialistagents
North Korea Shock: US Reporters Admit to Slanders, Calumnies
The free world has been protesting North Korea's 12-year prison sentence of Current journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee as unjust and outrageous. How embarrassing! Now the women have admitted their vile crimes. According to North Korea's official news agency. More » -
#propaganda
CelebreHopeUnism
Here's Burger King ad wizard Alex Bogusky's idea for "Rebranding America" which, honestly, I'm not sure how I feel about yet. Is it great? Please advise. There is another one that is, unequivocally, gross: More » -
#propaganda
Why Must the Liberal Media Lie About Pirates?
Why does the Washington Post want to tell children that their pirate fantasies are fake and evil? More » -
#propaganda
The Height of Google's Hubris
Jonathan Rosenberg, a top executive at Google, has let loose with a 4,492-word treatise on the future quoting presidents and deriding "the faceless scribes of drivel." It is the best window yet into Google's egomania. More » -
#politics
M.I.A. Faces Renewed Terror Questions Amid Visibility
As impressive as M.I.A. was at the Grammys and on the Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack, the burst of attention is attracting uncomfortable questions about her purported support for a terrorist groups. More » -
#endofanera
Bush's Very Last Friday Night Newsdump
Aw, we're almost misty-eyed. In an hour, the Bush White House will release a damning report on a Friday afternoon for the very last time. More » -
#media
Kindly Power Barons Will Buy Newspapers For Strictly Benevolent Reasons
"Good" news: a massive real estate developer and a sugar magnate may buy the Miami Herald. Hey, then let's sell the Washington Post to the CIA! This is a CHILLING VISION of newspapers' future. More »
