http://www.radio4all.net/program/61723Podcast for Program: #230 -- War, Language, and the Media (R)Fri, 27 Jul 2012 14:35:32 +0000240http://www.radio4all.net/program/61723Language doesn't just reflect your understanding of reality: it SHAPES it. The Pentagon (and its pet, the State Department) knows this and creates language to mislead us about what it is actually doing. First I and then MICHAEL PARENTI (in a fine talk from the 1990s) expore how it works. Of particular interest: Parenti's debunking of the "Gaddafi-is-a-menace" rhetoric, ca. 1990. (The government then forgot about Gaddafi for 20 years. Then he suddenly became a menace again.)Kenneth DowstFri, 27 Jul 2012 14:35:32 +0000