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To: Williams
Because democrats control the press and their world is a world of Soviet style censorship.

It's propaganda, not censorship.

27 posted on 06/03/2018 11:47:35 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: usconservative; Williams
Because democrats control the press and their world is a world of Soviet style censorship. - Williams
Journalism is bad news. Thus, the claim that journalism is objective is tantamount to a claim that negativity is objectivity. But "The conceit that negativity is objectivity” is a good definition of cynicism. It follows that journalism as we have always known it is cynical.

But no one can be cynical about everything; if A and B are opposites, cynicism about is naiveté about B. Journalism is cynical about society, and - correspondingly - naive about government (whose raison d’être is to limit the damage society inflicts on itself). And "the combination of cynicism towards society and naiveté towards government" is the correct definition of socialism.

It's propaganda, not censorship.
In the case of complete ideological control of all means of mass communication, propaganda includes censorship.

33 posted on 06/03/2018 1:37:52 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (Presses can be 'associated,' or presses can be independent. Demand independent presses.)
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Telling them not to report something is censorship. But the rest is propaganda.


39 posted on 06/03/2018 5:24:40 PM PDT by Williams (Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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