An inaccuracy. The important propaganda is aimed at the 10–20% of the population that has a stake and an impact on politics. Patrons of outlets like The New Yor

An inaccuracy. The important propaganda is aimed at the 10–20% of the population that has a stake and an impact on politics. Patrons of outlets like The New York Times. That’s most of what media critics like Chomsky has been writing about for half a century. Most of the population of liberal democracies (or at least in the US) have very little influence on politics. To the point where they are not being propagandized against as much as they are kept distracted with less “serious” things than opinion pieces about killing babies in incubators.