On: Weber Shandwick provides PR for Moderna and Pfizer, while staffing the CDC

[fallingknife]

Better they don't embed journalists, and nobody is reporting from the front lines?

[arcticbull → fallingknife]

Some would argue that propaganda is worse than nothing. Depending on your objectives, of course.

> "The first casualty when war comes is truth" - Hiram W Johnson

[lostlogin → fallingknife]

Yes.

There is plenty of coverage of Ukraine and we aren’t getting the Iraq war’s fake-but-looks-real coverage that was actually misleading propaganda.

[JumpCrisscross → lostlogin]

> is plenty of coverage of Ukraine and we aren’t getting the Iraq war’s fake-but-looks-real coverage that was actually misleading propaganda

You don’t see a small handful of enabling technologies that came to market between the Iraq War and Ukraine?

[lostlogin → JumpCrisscross]

That’s a good point. But the absence of this tech doesn’t mean we have to have propaganda.