“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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