WWII Japanese Propaganda and Today's US Media

[justjohn]

Okay, if I’m reading this correctly, either:

During WWII Tokyo Rose was merely reporting the news...

or

Today's American mass media has taken on the role of enemy propagandist.

U.S. troops have been mystified at how differently the war they fight in Iraq is portrayed by the U.S. media back home. Most just shrug it off as "politics," and yet another reason to not trust what the mass media presents as reliable reporting. But recently, the troops have been passing around an interesting discovery. Namely, that the Japanese psychological warfare effort during World War II included radio broadcasts that could be picked up by American troops. Popular music was played, but the commentary (by one of several English speaking Japanese women) always hammered away on the same points;


1 Your President (Franklin D Roosevelt) is lying to you.

2 This war is illegal.

3 You cannot win the war.

www.strategypage.com/htmw/htiw/articles/20070629.aspx