14 Propaganda Techniques Fox "News" Uses to Brainwash Americans | Truthout

Hi Rob,

This one caught my eye because we've talked about Fox news in our family before:

http://www.truth-out.org/14-propaganda-techniques-fox-news-uses-brainwash-americans/1309612678

I did not, however, scan much past the opening two or three paragraphs. The author has no sense of the history of American journalism. From the start – 1776 and before – we have had propaganda, innuendo, lies, appalling or laughable attacks, subjective analysis, distortion, defamation, and all manner of vicious material in our democratic journalism. That’s what you get with free speech. We’ve had good and bad journalism in our national conversation forever. The difference now, with the internet and digital communication in general, is that we have much more of each – good and bad. Citizens always had to sort out truth and falsehood in the nation’s collective consciousness. The job may be harder now because the quantity is greater, but for me it’s feels like the opposite. The more bad journalism I’m exposed to, the easier it becomes to recognize it.

I know we’ve differed on the general question of citizens’ abilities in this area, but I figured I’d make my contrarian case anyway!

Love,

Dad