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Quotes

“The propagandist is most effective…when his words make us create devils to fight or gods to adore.” — Leonard W. Doob

“Sending clear messages might not make for better relations; we might like each other less the more we understood about one another.” — John Durham Peters

“Truths are illusions of which one has forgotten that they are illusions.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

“Like any important piece of machinery — television or the computer, for example — language has an ideological agenda that is apt to be hidden from view.” — Neil Postman

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  • Michael // December 31, 2007 at 1:07 pm

    How about this one?: “The media are only as liberal as the conservative businesses that own them.” - Unknown

  • Betsy // January 11, 2008 at 3:54 pm

    My personal favorite (courtesy of a day-by-day calendar gift…):
    “See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.”
    -George W. Bush

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