I was doing some research on tomorrow's Scottish Independence vote... one of the "Yes" sites had this. Reminds me a LOT of what we see in the dotgov - especially in the complicity between them and the media:

• The rule of simplification: reducing all data to a simple confrontation between 'Good and Bad', 'Friend and Foe'.

• The rule of disfiguration: discrediting the opposition by crude smears and parodies.

• The rule of transfusion: manipulating the consensus values of the target audience for one's own ends.

• The rule of unanimity: presenting one's viewpoint as if it were the unanimous opinion of all right-thinking people: draining the doubting individual into agreement by the appeal of star-performers, by social pressure, and by 'psychological contagion'.

• The rule of orchestration: endlessly repeating the same messages in different variations and combinations.