American propoganda as Iraqi journalism

The pages of Baghdad Now, an Arabic-language newspaper, portray a country on the upswing. …

That the paper has no publicly known editor, no bylines and no ads is no mistake. It is part of America’s huge psychological warfare campaign to influence Iraqis’ behavior and attitudes, Ernesto Londono reports for The Washington Post.

“The millions spent on this is wasted money,” Ziyad al-Aajeely, director of Iraq’s nonprofit Journalistic Freedom Observatory, said as he flipped through a recent e…