I did not know that Propoganda was against the law...but apparently they want to make it legal...

[YellowRubberDuckie]

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mhastings/congressmen-seek-to-lift-propaganda-ban

An amendment that would legalize the use of propaganda on American audiences is being inserted into the latest defense authorization bill, BuzzFeed has learned.

The amendment would “strike the current ban on domestic dissemination” of propaganda material produced by the State Department and the Pentagon, according to the summary of the law at the House Rules Committee's official website.


If they pass this crap, we are in even worse trouble than we already are.

[tanyev]

1. So Fox News was breaking the law during the entire Bush Administration?

[thesquanderer]

2. No, Fox is legal, it is not *state* produced propaganda (n/t)

[tomp]

3. not "state produced"? sez you.

only in the most technical sense are the media not an organ of the state.

[MannyGoldstein]

4. Relax. It will never pass the Senate.

And if it does, the President will wield his veto pen.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

5. I know...

...but thought everyone should know.