Sunday, January 07, 2007

On propagandists

It's always a plus to carefully expose the flaws in an individual piece of bought-and-paid-for pseudo-research. And it helps all the more to remember the institutional structures in which propaganda is able to flourish - which you'll be able to do thanks to Cliff's overview of the Fraser Institute's recent attempts to scare government out of existence, for the greater profit and glory of its corporate donors.

That said, I wonder whether there's room for an even more thorough effort. While a blog post, backgrounder or single-issue dismantling every now and then always helps to put things back in focus, it seems that the right-wing propaganda machine gets enough media attention to justify an interest-group watchdog to respond systematically. Which leads to a couple of questions: has this been done yet? And if not, how much interest is there among other Blogging Dippers, Progressive Bloggers and other readers in setting up such an organization?

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