The Pentagon Propaganda Machine.

Cooling, B. Franklin; Hilliard, Jack B.; Fulbright, J. William

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“…Despite this, there is a recurrent note of political anxiety about the potential influence of the DOD on domestic populations (see, e.g., Whitlock, 2013). As early as 1970, Senator William Fulbright published The Pentagon Propaganda Machine, making the argument that the public affairs arm of the Pentagon was not focused on informing the American public so much as building support for the DOD (Fulbright, 1970). More recently, a Buzzfeed news reporter suggested unnamed high Pentagon officials were eager for a legislative change that would allow them to influence American public opinion more directly (Hastings, 2012).…”

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Putting on the Blitz: Urgency and Department of Defense Communications in Times of Budget Shortfall

Matchett

2022

Armed Forces & Society

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The existing theories of interaction between Congress and the Department of Defense (DOD) focus on elite-level principle-actor problems. However, the Department, as one of the most popular institutions in the United States, also has significant public appeal and maintains an active public affairs arm. This article builds on theories of bureaucratic reputation to argue that the DOD uses its public communications to advocate for its own budget. I leverage computerized text analysis to examine over 40,000 public facing documents published by the DOD since 2005. I find evidence that the DOD changed both the timing and the content of its public-facing communications to strategically argue for its budget. This is true during large budgetary shifts (like the U.S. budget sequester) and during the period of the year that the budget is under debate.

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Putting on the Blitz: Urgency and Department of Defense Communications in Times of Budget Shortfall

Matchett

2022

Armed Forces & Society

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“…Accordingly, for successful implementation of strategies it is necessary to ensure the speed and volume of obtaining the necessary (primarily high-quality and objective) information. The potential of the social level of information impact for both the development and degradation of humanity is growing [6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]. For example, the spread of the Internet community significantly influences the range of media technologies and increases the proportion of information training in organizational culture.…”

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Modernization of Infrastructure in the Information Sphere as a Condition of Genuine Sovereignty

Shedyakov

2024

Grundlagen Der Modernen Wissenschaftlichen Forschung

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“…Moreover, from each type of model (traditional, modern, postmodern) of development, a specific cultural and civilizational world can get its specifics according to both the deep layers of its value-meaning complexes and the dynamics of transformation. It is the moral pillars that protect society through traditions, foundations, and customs [14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22]. Awareness and determination are consistently guided by the genuine deep interests of the peoplean obvious condition for effective modernization, especially reflexive modernization.…”

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Media Intertext in Socio-Cultural Impact’s Realization

Шедяков

2023

Theoretical and Empirical Scientific Research: Concept and Trends

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High-quality provision of information: both to key figures and at the social level, is the most important factor in both success in the present and management of the future. Accordingly, an essential issue of public security is the state and dynamics of the information sphere [1][2][3][4][5][6][7]. So the realization of a holistic information policy does not contradict, but, on the contrary, relies on the competition of approaches, opinions and information resources. But this is not enough. In particular, the information plane of sovereignty, the development of information infrastructure, the availability of modern information and telecommunication-cybernetic means, is raising the level of media culture. Moreover, the emphasis on hybrid wars and special operations tends to turn the information sphere, the public climate and social well-being into key issues of global, regional and national security. For example, propaganda and agitation allows you to influence the perception, and sometimes even form the reference points for the crystallization of the worldview. The high efficiency of information weapons in processing a specific person and the population as a whole highlights the information sphere as an important component of hybrid pressure. And the digitalization of life opens up depths of alienation and exploitation based on manipulation and inequality.Mutual overlap, intersection and resonation of the characteristics of postglobality and information content enhances the role of the text as representing the approaches and views that are characteristic of a certain environment in a different social landscape. At the same time, the text becomes a means of personal choice of an interesting / comfortable opinion. An important factor in the development of the text is its decoding and interpretation. Often, revealing the implicit meanings of the text turns out to be a direction for obtaining not only aesthetic pleasure, but also new levels of message. Accordingly, on the one hand, the role of the mediator as an interpreter and commentator of the text increases. On the other hand, satisfaction of one's need to strengthen the grounds for explaining events and processes causes a desire to figure out for oneself what the potential of a critically reflective approach has. Thus, the culture of media intertext acts as a factor of personal and social transformations. In turn, the rise in the importance of information technology and strategic communications for society naturally occurs when transformations are carried out at the paradigm level. Especially when they are superimposed on the growing pressure of virtual worlds (sometimes very far from reality) to real one, which, with the help of dissecting the information picture of the world, is able provoke a distortion of social ideology and psychology [8][9][10][11][12][13].In the cultural-civilizational world as a whole, the objective grounds for increasing multilevel diversity are radically expanding. The formula "creative

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The Pentagon Propaganda Machine.

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Putting on the Blitz: Urgency and Department of Defense Communications in Times of Budget Shortfall

Putting on the Blitz: Urgency and Department of Defense Communications in Times of Budget Shortfall

Modernization of Infrastructure in the Information Sphere as a Condition of Genuine Sovereignty

Media Intertext in Socio-Cultural Impact’s Realization

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