William Benton Quotes

I set the propaganda machine in motion. Now we will see what the apparatus will do.

The Russians know that well executed disinformation, when exercised tactically, can quickly metastasize.

What's public is propaganda, what's secret is serious.

We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.

For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled.

All governments in all wars have used all the means at their disposal to put their own motives, decisions and actions, and the actions of their military forces, in the best possible light.

The battle against terrorism is not only a military fight but primarily a battle of information.

In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours.

We studied Western journalists' reporting methods, fed them story ideas, steered them toward sympathetic interviewees, and supplied them with the revolutionary movement's facts and figures.

White Paper has effectively exposed certain aspects of PBSUCCESS ... If possible, fabricate big human interest story, like flying saucers, birth sextuplets in remote area to take play away.

We are in a battle, and more than half of this battle is taking place in the battlefield of the media

... the Kremlin ought to put McCarthy on its payroll.

Propaganda is bad when it comes from the enemy. It is good when it comes from us.

Russia has always been involved in propaganda and disinformation.

The fake news is - I mean, as a tool of warfare - has been there for decades and decades and decades. It was never very well done until, really, the Ukraine, though I would say that the Russians used to complain about fake things to say the State Department.

Vladimir Putin understood, from the Communist era when he was a KGB officer, that the Russian propaganda system of targeting Western media - that in the digital world, you could easily pull the Western media around by a nose ring.

Incomprehensible messaging is a very important part of Russian propaganda.

The Russian propaganda machine, even in the U.S., is not to be discounted.

It shouldn't surprise any American to know that Russia uses its money and its intelligence services to spread disinformation, use subterfuge and deception and manipulation, to try to divide political opinion within the United States, within any Western European country, or among NATO countries. That's one of the techniques that Russia has used for decades, during the Cold War and during the Putin era.

Russia today is nothing but a propaganda arm.

We're in a world of propaganda. Some of it is all to effective.

Two increasing themes which appear to dominate our listening, reading and watching lives are propaganda and 'national security', or manufactured war.

Some experts believe that somebody is deceiving WikiLeaks, that its reputation is being undermined in order for it to be used for political purposes.

Counter-knowledge covers the propagation of false legends and conspiracy theories often used for political purposes or fundamentalist religious propaganda.

We have to stop the propaganda, the shameful propaganda used by Kremlin to rehabilitate these old types.