tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25254614.post8474047307416454874..comments2024-03-17T14:26:32.275-07:00Comments on The Fabuleous Fifties: Ger Apeldoornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03633862833036214748noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25254614.post-11819498466215456922012-05-13T13:30:15.243-07:002012-05-13T13:30:15.243-07:00I recently came across a newspaper article from th...I recently came across a newspaper article from the time where the question weather to use the atom bomb in Korea was seriously discussed. I think the term propaganda is not appropriate here. Propaganda is (dis)information used by authorities to steer the opinion of the public. This is a serious effort by a right wing writer who had lived through the horrors of one war to make sense of another. Of course he was operating within the confines of what was done and not done in the press, but don't forget that other stories by this writer were so bleak that Atlas war comics were forbidden for soldiers - a salient fact I found out recently.Ger Apeldoornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03633862833036214748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25254614.post-83198404935739997392011-01-25T15:49:21.257-08:002011-01-25T15:49:21.257-08:00the yanks were using bio-warfare in Korea at the t...the yanks were using bio-warfare in Korea at the time. No mention to that in the comic? hey! the last one or 2 panels are just too mùuch haha...the generals discussing "no no we cannot put ourselves to their level..this is not civilizated ya know". too cynical or just a bad joke?! And yes, the guy on the right panel is right: PROPAGANDA, that's the wise and only possible readingJules Nemohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10437798103592916305noreply@blogger.com