LogFAQs > #960676610

Considering the multitude of interpretations, it's a little iffy. There's a false assumption that propaganda has to be either misleading or outright fictitious, but that's not necessarily the case. Some examples are just designed to elicit a strong emotional response. I believe it's generally objectionable because of its nature, but... there are definitely degrees.

And while there's some propaganda that doesn't feel justifiable under any circumstances, I'm not sure that the lesser forms of propaganda require justification. For example, John Oliver is a propaganda machine, but I would expect a lot of people go into that expecting massive amounts of bias and misleading statements. It's only a problem when people take him at face value, which I'm sure a certain percent of his audience does -- but, as a LWT viewer myself, I know that a lot of people don't. It's different from say, NPR, where most listeners might take NPR as gospel because it's an actual news outlet (even though it heavily editorializes and slants the news); at the same time, I'll hear some stories and discussions that require an absurd level of double-think to overlook the glaring contradictions.

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