Russian antivirus firm faked malware to harm rivals, say ex-employees

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Re: Russian antivirus firm faked malware to harm rivals, say ex-employees

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Post by cpncrunch » Sat, Aug 15, 2015, 3:19 PM UTC

throwawayaway wrote: post #99

cpncrunch wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Bush story is fluff, but the grandparent comment was talking about "fluff AND propaganda", which obviously doesn't apply to the Bush article. (I assume it didn't mean "fluff OR propaganda" because obviously that wouldn't apply to the Kaspersky article).

> Asked by Winfrey whether he regretted the decision to invade Iraq based on unfounded intelligence that leader Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, Bush admitted feeling "terrible" and "sickened" about being wrong the weapons, but blamed Hussein. I consider this to be propaganda. First time I've seen reuters accidentally a word too. Down further in my estimation!

Reporting on his comments in a book interview with Oprah is hardly "propaganda"! Good on Oprah for bringing up the topic. Everyone knows he's responsible for the fiasco of the Iraq war and there were no WMDs. Oprah prodded him as much as was appropriate, then left it at that. Reuters was just repoting on the interview. I'm pretty certain if you bothered to look you'd probably find lots of Reuters stories where they probe Bush much deeper on this issue and give him a thrashing. (I haven't looked myself, but I'd be very surprised if that wasn't the case).

Anyway, if you think that is propaganda you should perhaps visit Russia to see what real propaganda looks like.

Re: Russian antivirus firm faked malware to harm rivals, say ex-employees

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Post by throwawayaway » Sat, Aug 15, 2015, 3:35 PM UTC

cpncrunch wrote: post #101

throwawayaway wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Asked by Winfrey whether he regretted the decision to invade Iraq based on unfounded intelligence that leader Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, Bush admitted feeling "terrible" and "sickened" about being wrong the weapons, but blamed Hussein. I consider this to be propaganda. First time I've seen reuters accidentally a word too. Down further in my estimation!

Reporting on his comments in a book interview with Oprah is hardly "propaganda"! Good on Oprah for bringing up the topic. Everyone knows he's responsible for the fiasco of the Iraq war and there were no WMDs. Oprah prodded him as much as was appropriate, then left it at that. Reuters was just repoting on the interview. I'm pretty certain if you bothered to look you'd probably find lots of Reuters stories where they p…

No true scotsman eh? There's no doubt that both military industrial complexes engage in propaganda.

Plenty here for you to peruse, enough to satisfy the 'often' condition, while simultaneously not always being 'on message'.

http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/tag/george-w-bush/

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