Friday, February 08, 2008

NY Times: Audience Walk Out Of Falun Gong "Agiprop Theater"

From New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/06/nyregion/06splendor.html

members of the audience, in twos and fours and larger groups, began to walk out. At intermission, dozens of people, perhaps a few hundred, were leaving. They had realized that the show was not simply a celebration of the Chinese New Year, but an outreach of Falun Gong

Here's the definition of "agiprop":
political strategy in which the techniques of agitation and propaganda are used to influence and mobilize public opinion. Although the strategy is common, both the label and an obsession with it were specific to the Marxism
Irony abound. Thank you Gary Wong.

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