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It’s not even the just the individual stories. The act of selecting which stories to promote and which ones to publish without fanfare and which to not publish
by bananabiscuit 3y ago
It’s not even the just the individual stories. The act of selecting which stories to promote and which ones to publish without fanfare and which to not publish at all is also propaganda.
- krapp 3y agoThere doesn't even need to be a nefarious conspiracy involved, just the rational intersection of common interests and capitalist incentives are enough.
- ejb999 3y agohad this debate with a family member, when I was pointing out the 'bias' in a particular newspaper - his contention that if the story was true, it couldn't be considered biased - he couldn't quite grasp that choosing (or not choosing) which stories to publish, and how often to report on something is defacto bias.
- bigger_inside 3y agoalso, you can propagandize quite well with something that contains no lies. The current discourse conflates "propaganda" with "lie", but of course that's .. well, part of propaganda. The best ways to rile up a mass is to tell them verifiable things, but in selective ways, leaving out context, leaving out history, leaving out ambiguities; it would be hard to claim the information is "wrong" on its face, but it's still wrong simply because of what it leaves out.