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This is always the danger with propaganda, that it becomes at last more credible to its disseminators than to its targets.

Garry Wills (b. 1934) American author, journalist, historian
The Kennedy Imprisonment: A Meditation on Power, ch. 18 (1981)

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Wills, Garry - The Kennedy Imprisonment: A Meditation on Power, ch. 18 (1981) | WIST Quotations

This is always the danger with propaganda, that it becomes at last more credible to its disseminators than to its targets. Referring to US government efforts in the early 60s to paint Castro's regime in Cuba as weak, eventually leading to the US government itself thinking the regime could be…

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Daniel Kerekes 1d ago

Brauchen wir neue gute #agitprop?

Techdirt 2d ago

CBS News Under Bari Weiss Sees Worst Ratings In Quarter Century

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CBS News Under Bari Weiss Sees Worst Ratings In Quarter Century

When right wing billionaire Larry Ellison (and his nepobaby kid David) hired trolling blogger Bari Weiss to run CBS News, Weiss arrived with the promise of “balanced, fact-based news,” …

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Strypey Mar 21

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I don't know if using "disassemble", in place of "disect" or "kill", was a subtle reference to the dehumanising euphemisms that were emerging at the time ("friendly fire", "special rendition", etc). As noted by The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy in Television: Drug of a Nation;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD9pJzZ1XGI

But it sure does serve that purpose in hindsight.

BTW: I'd love to see a 2026 remix of Television about Social Media.

#music #HipHop #SpokenWord #AgitProp #DisposableHeroesOfHiphoprisy

Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy, the - Television, The Drug Of The Nation [full official video]

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Techdirt Mar 18

Pete Hegseth: We Can’t Wait For Larry Ellison To Turn CNN Into Another Right Wing Propaganda Mill

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Pete Hegseth: We Can’t Wait For Larry Ellison To Turn CNN Into Another Right Wing Propaganda Mill

We’ve noted repeatedly how the U.S. authoritarian right is buying up all of our new and old media companies because they’re trying to mimic what Viktor Orban created in Hungary. Namely,…

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Murray - Paperposts Mar 13

saw these today, the Dalit (Black) Panthers - a 1972 Mumbai group inspired by the Black Panthers
#art #agitprop #activism #paperposts

poponion Mar 10

Su recordatorio de que las bajadas de IVA fueron la medida más INÚTIL de las tomadas cuando las crisis energética y de flujo de suministros de la guerra de Ucrania.

Es una medida ideológica.

No a bajadas de impuestos.

#iva #agitprop #manipulación

Sven Geggus Mar 5

@benny @funfacts_de Wie üblich bei den Rechten wirft man dem politischen Gegner immer das vor was man selbst macht. In diesem Fall #Agitprop.

cbj Mar 3

Nos claviers comme boucliers
est une trilogie hacktiviste,
avec Amour et Rage,
sous forme
de couronne de sonnets,
dit,
Corona sonnets,
Pour un Manifeste Poétique Hacktiviste.
#AgitProp
#CyberPoetry
#FloodNet
#HackingWithCare
#LaVoixDuCrépuscule

https://youtu.be/_skE8QPK8tg

Nos claviers comme boucliers

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Murray - Paperposts Feb 28

another one for today - one of my favorite #antiwar pieces

'The Seducer' by Christer Themptander,
Sweden 1984.

#paperposts #agitprop #art