Propaganda Analysis was a require course for graduation from Iowa State University when I was there. It was to teach us how the old people are conning us. They tried to used the Readers Digest to show how articles changed from the original writing to a conservative perspective. mid 70’s
Propaganda and propaganda analysis have a long history.
Yeah, I remember the Readers Digest tried to propagandize young Americans to avoid pre-martial sex while the New York Times lauded Joe Stalin for his Potemkin Villages and supplying food to the the Russian Peasants and Ukraine.