THE PENTAGON PROPAGANDA MACHINE SENATOR I WILLIAM FULBRIGHT

The Pentagon propaganda machine Editorial Review - Kirkus Reviews Senator Fulbright's fight against the military industrial complex is on. Round one: The Arrogance of Power. Round two: The Pentagon Propaganda Machine. Here the Arkansan asserts that the war and the military have become part of our environment, like pollution. The once limited technical functions of the armed forces have expanded to a political role for which their parochial training has not prepared them. Fulbright discusses the dangerously vast and powerful communications network by which the Defense Department propagandizes its own policies and represses dissemination of opposing views. Through pro-war speeches by high ranking officers to community groups at taxpayers' expense, by controlled extension of research grants, and by pseudo-accurate depictions of military activities in Pentagon-prepared news clips, the military has become the Big Brother enforcer of U.S. foreign policy opinion. Fulbright cites the inordinat