All the News that Fits, Ministry of Propaganda Dept. 0
The Las Vegas Sun’s Brian Greenspun points out that, too often, propaganda masquerades as news and serves, not the pubic interest, but the public biases. A snippet:
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Just look at Congress.
We have people in charge of science and technology who believe the world is 5,000 years old. We have people in charge of foreign policy who believe venturing away from the shores of America is a foreign concept. We have people who talk about women in a first-class way who legislate laws about women as if they were second-class citizens.
I ask myself why that is every day. And now I know the answer.
There is an entire industry of very smart people who realize they can manipulate Americans like sheep just by telling them lies, over and over again. Lies the people are only too willing to hear. Sound familiar?
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