1998 world wide public Affairs conference washington D.C.
I was there when they announced the new strategy to use information warfare as a primary tool of war. These are tje exact examples they gave us. Show a fake war with a nation all on news while i n reality it never happened. Easy way to Steal funding.
My working group opposed the idea as to easy to detect by our enemies. The answer was. "It's the public that needs to believe it".
All designed to trick Americans. One test was to run a fake news story in a geographical location only (such as one state or city) , get that population to totally believe a lie while the rest of us hear nothing about it. Then manipulate that population specifically towards some goal. This was always discussed asnif it was only going to be used against our enemies. But we the people, to them, are the enemy.
Back in 1991, I remember watching live feed (we had a 6' dish). News reporters were in the Middle East covering Operation Desert Storm and I think it was a producer yelling to the report,"I don't care if the rocket blows off our door, you say it didn't hit". I really do miss my big satellite dish.
Only the people who didn't listen to the whole show. The hysterical ones only caught bits of the show and panicked. People who listened to the whole thing knew it was a drama. It was introduced as such, the whole story from sighting explosions on Mars to people being killed on Earth happened in mere minutes, and Orson Welles said at the end that he couldn't TP every tree or soap every window in the country so it was his best way to prank everyone and say "Boo!"
I have the entire broadcast on a record I bought over 50 years ago.
1998 world wide public Affairs conference washington D.C.
I was there when they announced the new strategy to use information warfare as a primary tool of war. These are tje exact examples they gave us. Show a fake war with a nation all on news while i n reality it never happened. Easy way to Steal funding.
My working group opposed the idea as to easy to detect by our enemies. The answer was. "It's the public that needs to believe it".
All designed to trick Americans. One test was to run a fake news story in a geographical location only (such as one state or city) , get that population to totally believe a lie while the rest of us hear nothing about it. Then manipulate that population specifically towards some goal. This was always discussed asnif it was only going to be used against our enemies. But we the people, to them, are the enemy.
Back in 1991, I remember watching live feed (we had a 6' dish). News reporters were in the Middle East covering Operation Desert Storm and I think it was a producer yelling to the report,"I don't care if the rocket blows off our door, you say it didn't hit". I really do miss my big satellite dish.
Only the people who didn't listen to the whole show. The hysterical ones only caught bits of the show and panicked. People who listened to the whole thing knew it was a drama. It was introduced as such, the whole story from sighting explosions on Mars to people being killed on Earth happened in mere minutes, and Orson Welles said at the end that he couldn't TP every tree or soap every window in the country so it was his best way to prank everyone and say "Boo!"
I have the entire broadcast on a record I bought over 50 years ago.
Right. People don't pay attention and listen to everything.
My wife had a relative who heard a bit of the show, put a pot on his head, and ran outside with his gun in defense against Martians. :)
The whole country was in an uproar for a bit.