Lambert at Corrente has some good recent posts on the disinformation strategery of Bu$hCo.
The Farmer remembers some details about the secret wars and "perception management" during the Reagan years.
One of the worst things Bu$hCo has done is to bring all discussion of facts to a "he said- she said" level, while playing Calvinball with the data. From evolution to the environment, from mercury to Mars, nothing is sacred to Bu$hCo except the needs of the moment.
Billmon among others have noted how Orwellian these tendencies are.
The best you can say about the situation is that it seems to be a recurrent dilemma.
While this has been a problem in the past, the scale of the current situation can only be called Texan.
When the State owns the information sources, it's bad enough in the old Soviet way. When the Company owns both the State and the Media, it's Morning in America, and the Boss is always right. Until, of course, the Management changes.
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