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originally posted by: dollukka
Putin = Cult
Not surprised, we battle with this false propaganda every day. Everything our politicians say are twisted by Russian press and news...
It was much more relaxed prior Ukraine conflict.. Russia is now like totally different neighbor than it was.
originally posted by: Rosinitiate
originally posted by: dollukka
Putin = Cult
Not surprised, we battle with this false propaganda every day. Everything our politicians say are twisted by Russian press and news...
It was much more relaxed prior Ukraine conflict.. Russia is now like totally different neighbor than it was.
Yes we do battle false propaganda everyday. Every single time I turn on my TV in fact. Question that begs to be asked, is: Shouldn't we care more about the domestic propaganda machine over a foreign one? I mean, I'd suspect most people would expect a foreign nation to use propaganda on other nations to win favor. Exactly why at one time it was legal for the US to use propaganda on foreign nations but not its own citizens.
originally posted by: Xcalibur254
a reply to: Rosinitiate
Western media clearly has its own biases. However to compare it to Russian media is a bit disingenuous. If Western "propaganda" were as effective as people on this site make it out to be why do both the President and Congress have approval ratings in the toilet? Why is there an entire generation that distrusts both the government and the media?
If you’ve read George Orwell’s Animal Farm he wrote in the mid-1940s, it was a satire on the Soviet Union, a totalitarian state. It was a big hit. Everybody loved it. Turns out he wrote an introduction to Animal Farm which was suppressed. It only appeared 30 years later. Someone had found it in his papers. The introduction to Animal Farm was about "Literary Censorship in England" and what it says is that obviously this book is ridiculing the Soviet Union and its totalitarian structure. But he said England is not all that different. We don’t have the KGB on our neck, but the end result comes out pretty much the same. People who have independent ideas or who think the wrong kind of thoughts are cut out.
He talks a little, only two sentences, about the institutional structure. He asks, why does this happen? Well, one, because the press is owned by wealthy people who only want certain things to reach the public. The other thing he says is that when you go through the elite education system, when you go through the proper schools in Oxford, you learn that there are certain things it’s not proper to say and there are certain thoughts that are not proper to have. That is the socialization role of elite institutions and if you don’t adapt to that, you’re usually out. Those two sentences more or less tell the story.