How propaganda is disseminated: WikiLeaks Edition
• Salon / Glenn GreenwaldWeeks, months or years later, those claims get quietly exposed as being utter falsehoods, by which point it does not matter, because the goal is already well-achieved: the falsehoods are ingrained as accepted truth.
"A truth's initial commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie
was believed. When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and
its speaker, a raving lunatic." --Dresden James