While some propaganda is mendacious, the most effective propaganda will interlace carefully selected verifiable facts with emotional appeals, says professor Michael J. Socolow.
To travel abroad praising dictatorships for their subways and cheeseburgers while ignoring their murderousness is certainly not journalism. It is propaganda.
Tucker Carlson’s sycophantic interview with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, and his subsequent praise for Russia’s subways, supermarkets and cheeseburgers, was not journalism. It was propaganda.
Tucker Carlson’s sycophantic interview with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, and his subsequent praise for Russia's subways, supermarkets and cheeseburgers, was not journalism. It was propaganda.