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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCan we please stop with this 'Fake News' bullshit.....
and call it what is really is....
propaganda
noun
information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.
Its not enough to be able to lie with a straight face; anybody with enough gall to raise on a busted flush can do that. The first way to lie artistically is to tell the truth but not all of it. The second way involves telling the truth, too, but is harder: Tell the exact truth and maybe all of it
but tell it so unconvincingly that your listener is sure you are lying.
"Reason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men."
- Robert Heinlein
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."
- Joseph Goebbels
msongs
(67,405 posts)Rosco T.
(6,496 posts)refer his spokespeople as Trump Propangandist
Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)Donald Trump comes by it naturally as he is a classic chronic liar, his team surrounding him are doing well at this also.
Very soon nobody will know what is true and what is not, by design.
VOX
(22,976 posts)that one just gives up trying to sort them out. With Trump & Co., it's the way they work. Every day. Every hour. The lies just pile up like so much soiled laundry.
tavalon
(27,985 posts)This is and has always been the opening salvo to destroy the 4th estate.