Mar 1st, 2008 · Scott Simon talks with Chris O'Brien, a UK native, who just finished two years in Beijing massaging the English press releases from Xinhua, the official Chinese press agency. O' Brien has been a self-described propagandist for the Chinese government, making stilted official old line Marxist newspeak sound like familiar English in the West.
Jul 3rd, 2007 · The man who represents Sudan in Washington says he's misunderstood as so is his country. John Ukec seems to be having a hard time getting heard. President Bush has not met with him, and the media has blasted him as a propagandist.
Sep 30th, 2006 · Iva Toguri D'Aquino, who died this week at age 90, was convicted and later pardoned of being "Tokyo Rose," a World War II propagandist. NPR's Scott Simon, who met D'Aquino, reflects on a woman who was long, and wrongly, maligned.