• davel@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    Would you know propaganda if it walked up and bit you?

    Stephen Colbert at the 2006 White House Correspondents’ Dinner

    But, listen, let’s review the rules. Here’s how it works: the president makes decisions. He’s the decider. The press secretary announces those decisions, and you people of the press type those decisions down. Make, announce, type. Just put 'em through a spell check and go home. Get to know your family again. Make love to your wife. Write that novel you got kicking around in your head. You know, the one about the intrepid Washington reporter with the courage to stand up to the administration. You know—fiction.

    Noam Chomsky: The five filters of the mass media machine

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      1 month ago

      I have absolutely no idea how this is relevant, but I think that the volume of discussion encompassing whether Reuters is presenting propaganda is worth no one’s time.