Posted on 10/09/2018 8:07:10 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is offering a course this semester focusing on what it calls “Trumpaganda.”
Students will examine Trump’s “war on facts, press and democracy,” according to the eight-week course title.
The class is offered through the university’s journalism program, according to the Daily Illini.
“As a candidate, Trump employed the most common propaganda device, name-calling, to define, degrade, discredit and destroy his primary opponents as well as the “fake” news media,” the course description reads.
Mira Sotirovic, associate professor in media, is teaching the class, and told the Daily Illini that students will look at President Trump’s strategies for dealing with the press to look how propaganda can exist in a democracy.
“Propaganda is effective only if it is concealed and camouflaged as something else, such as news, advertisements or PR releases, and it is critical to learn how to detect propaganda and recognize propagandistic features of any communication, including presidential,” Sotirovic told the paper.
Sotirovic contributed a chapter to the scholarly text: “Communication in the Age of Trump.”
Expect more ‘CAMPAIGNING’ leading up to 2020.
I can only imagine the Tweets from the “Professor”
does this course mention Journo-List and other collusion between hundreds of members of the MSM to frame the day’s talking points in all major media?
And while Journo-List itself expired in daylight they continue to engage in the same practice through other channels.
All advertising is propaganda. It’s how you get your message out.
In a debate you argue your points, you don’t highlight both sides of an issue. It weakens your own argument. You raise counter arguments to those positions.
>>Total joke. Journalism has become a polemic.
It has been polemic for over half a century.
Commie Howard Zinn was teaching journalist students in the mid-80s.
What a crock. Journalism is a craft: not a social science. She might as well contribute recipes to a "scholarly" cookbook.
That’s one thing you have to give her:
If you read her online CV it quickly becomes apparent she has a keen interest in how media affects politics....
Just call the course, Winning!
It has been polemic for over half a century.
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“Journalists” have always leaned left but they were not quite as openly aggressive in promoting their favored candidates, condemning all things conservatives, and generally pushing a radical socialist agenda.
Its gotten noticeably worse in recent years. Its now in-your-face all the time.
Howard Zinn was a Commie indoctrinating students and teaching them the tricks of the game.
Other activist journalists came in as Communists. This was academia ensuring that they became Communists (if only to get ahead).
Unfortunately journalism is not the only major in college that has been subject to heavy ideological indoctrination by far left professors.
true
history
economics
political science
healthcare (biological and mental)
biochem
arts
Not content to infest academia, the Left has dominates the media industry, entertainment, and law.
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