In journalism subjectivity is not the binary opposite of objectivity. The protagonists on both sides of the Cold War propaganda war were engaged in neither objective nor subjective journalism. While Western journalists working in the trenches of the Cold War at Radio Free Europe or Voice of America used the “mimicry of objectivism” and the “aura of objectivity” as their weapons to counter political propaganda from the East, journalists behind the Iron Curtain were consciously and proudly committed to direct propaganda as the only effective way of intervening in the affairs of the world. This introductory essay suggests a historical frame for interpreting the different practices of the two sides. The three papers that follow this introduction, all based on detailed archival work, analyze different aspects of the unprecedented propaganda Cold War. This war was fought under a serious constraint: the grave shortage of information from the opposing side. Working under conditions of uncertainty, reliable information was substituted by either self‐delusion, wild fantasies, hearsay, lies, or unjustifiable trust in unreliable information. The papers attempt to bring the reader closer to an era that seems to be the opposite of ours: instead of an information deluge, propagandists, pundits, and analysts of the Cold War were forced to live with a dearth of information.

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既不客观也不主观

在新闻学中，主观性不是客观性的二元对立面。冷战宣传战双方的主角既没有从事客观新闻，也没有主观新闻。在自由欧洲电台或美国之音在冷战战working中工作的西方记者使用“模仿客观主义”和“客观光环”作为对抗东方政治宣传的武器时，铁幕背后的记者有意识和自豪地致力于将宣传作为干预世界事务的唯一有效方法。这篇介绍性文章为解释双方的不同做法提供了历史框架。引言之后的三篇论文均基于详细的存档工作，分析了空前的宣传冷战的不同方面。这场战争是在严重的约束下进行的：对立双方的信息严重短缺。在不确定的条件下工作时，可靠的信息被自欺欺人，疯狂的幻想，传闻，谎言或对不可靠信息的不合理信任所取代。这些论文试图使读者更接近一个与我们相反的时代：宣传家，专家和冷战分析师被迫忍受信息匮乏，而不是信息泛滥。