Black propaganda ‘Master Illusions’ Through Modern History

Black propaganda is a covert communication of false data
intended to injure, impede or destroy the activity or life of
another person, group or nation, usually issued from a false
or removed source from the actual instigator.

     It is used heavily in "psychological warfare."

     It is a specialized technology of its own.

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A Michigan lawmaker wants to register reporters to ensure they’re credible and have “good moral character.”  

State Sen. Bruce Patterson is introducing legislation that will regulate reporters much as the state regulates hairdressers, auto mechanics and plumbers. Patterson, who also practices constitutional law, says the general public is being overwhelmed by an increasing number of media outlets -- traditional, online and citizen generated -- and an even greater amount of misinformation.

“Legitimate media sources are critically important to our government,” he said.more

Psychological Warfare / PSYOP Articles & Documents

It relies chiefly on the technique of "classification" of
another or a group or a nation as undesirable or evil. 

– How do wars begin? With a “master illusion”, according to Ralph McGehee, one of the CIA’s pioneers in “black propaganda”, known today as “news management”. In 1983, he described to me how the CIA had faked an “incident” that became the “conclusive proof of North Vietnam’s aggression”. This followed a claim, also fake, that North Vietnamese torpedo boats had attacked an American warship in the Gulf of Tonkin in August 1964.
“The CIA,” he said, “loaded up a junk, a North Vietnamese junk, with communist weapons—the Agency maintains communist arsenals in the United States and around the world. They floated this junk off the coast of central Vietnam. Then they shot it up and made it look like a fire fight had taken place, and they brought in the American press.
The Israelis have played this murderous game since 1948. The massacre of peace activists in international waters on 31 May was “spun” to the Israeli public for most of last week, preparing them for yet more murder by their government, with the unarmed flotilla of humanitarians described as terrorists or dupes of terrorists. The BBC was so intimidated that it reported the atrocity primarily as a “potential public relations disaster for Israel”, the perspective of the killers, and a disgrace for journalism.more