Friday, February 22, 2002

misinformation

Just what is the Office of Strategic Influence? This newly formed government agency may be out on a mission to engage in tactics of misinformation to spread propaganda. Is the spreading of untruths to combat terrorism a bad idea?

Brigadier General Simon P. Worden heads an agency that the New York Times has called an Office of shady influence.

If our government is going to invest ongoing efforts in spreading false information, maybe we are going to have to learn more about how propaganda works.

- William Slawski