University of Illinois defends new 'Trumpaganda' course

[BookShaka]

So teach a course on propaganda and see what you get. How many declarations made by politicians turn out to be false and/or not backed up by any reliable information? If someone says something, it's out there for the public. If someone in the media does the research and finds out that it isn't true, the politician is disseminating propaganda.

Some politicians put forth that when 5 people do something, it is 500 hundred or 5,000. Some politicians put forth that medical or scientific studies show something that no medical or scientific studies from respected medical research professionals actually show.

Yes, politicians are notorious at doling out misleading information but journalists have and use tactics to mislead as well. It seems this course has been designed to pretend the only propaganda comes from Trump and that’s simply not true. I’m not against studying tactics used by Trump but he’s far from the only distributor of propaganda.

What tactics used by journalists are misleading?

trump has been running a disinformation/propaganda campaign since Day One. Why not talk about it? I'm not against studying similar efforts by anti-trumps, but I'm not seeing any indication that it exists on any level. It's an accusation, but an accusation made by people who do not actually have any credibility.

You’re sooooooooooo naive it’s not even funny as is the one who marked this post “Winner.” Many journalists can tailor a story to their liking. That’s why nowadays just about anything you get from the news promotes a certain worldview even if it’s not outwardly obvious. Reporters can make things seem a certain way by leaving out relevant information that gets in the way of the narrative they’re trying to report. They can word questions to interviewees a certain way in hopes of getting a certain answer, which they’ve done to Trump many times.

Remember when Chris Matthews asked Trump “if abortion was illegal should women who get them be punished?” That was a gotcha question bc he knew Trump would say yes and you know how the news reported that? “Trump says women who get abortions should be punished!” WITHOUT mentioning the fact Matthews asked if it was illegal should they be punished. Now millions of people think Trump said something he didn’t fucking say.

Your ignorance angers me. Google “misleading tactics journalists” if the above example doesn’t register.

 

[BookShaka]

So teach a course on propaganda and see what you get. How many declarations made by politicians turn out to be false and/or not backed up by any reliable information? If someone says something, it's out there for the public. If someone in the media does the research and finds out that it isn't true, the politician is disseminating propaganda.

Some politicians put forth that when 5 people do something, it is 500 hundred or 5,000. Some politicians put forth that medical or scientific studies show something that no medical or scientific studies from respected medical research professionals actually show.

Yes, politicians are notorious at doling out misleading information but journalists have and use tactics to mislead as well. It seems this course has been designed to pretend the only propaganda comes from Trump and that’s simply not true. I’m not against studying tactics used by Trump but he’s far from the only distributor of propaganda.

What tactics used by journalists are misleading?

trump has been running a disinformation/propaganda campaign since Day One. Why not talk about it? I'm not against studying similar efforts by anti-trumps, but I'm not seeing any indication that it exists on any level. It's an accusation, but an accusation made by people who do not actually have any credibility.

OMG you have got to be fucking kidding me...

She’s not.

 

[Roudy]

More evidence that our universities have turned into Leftist indoctrination academies.

 

[Lysistrata]

So teach a course on propaganda and see what you get. How many declarations made by politicians turn out to be false and/or not backed up by any reliable information? If someone says something, it's out there for the public. If someone in the media does the research and finds out that it isn't true, the politician is disseminating propaganda.

Some politicians put forth that when 5 people do something, it is 500 hundred or 5,000. Some politicians put forth that medical or scientific studies show something that no medical or scientific studies from respected medical research professionals actually show.

Yes, politicians are notorious at doling out misleading information but journalists have and use tactics to mislead as well. It seems this course has been designed to pretend the only propaganda comes from Trump and that’s simply not true. I’m not against studying tactics used by Trump but he’s far from the only distributor of propaganda.

What tactics used by journalists are misleading?

trump has been running a disinformation/propaganda campaign since Day One. Why not talk about it? I'm not against studying similar efforts by anti-trumps, but I'm not seeing any indication that it exists on any level. It's an accusation, but an accusation made by people who do not actually have any credibility.

OMG you have got to be fucking kidding me...

She’s not.

You people have got to start responding with facts, statistics, footnotes, wtinesses. This man is lying too much. So are his followers. There is no requirement that journalists show these politicians in their best light or accept their back-peddling. The only people who would portray the fourth estate as "enemies of the people" are individuals who themselves are actually "enemies of the people." I remember when Nixon was up to his tricks at Ho-Jo's and the Watergate and Woodward and Bernstein got him. He actually did what he was accused of. Martha Mitchell was there trying to phone the truth about her husband from her bathroom at the Watergate. Then we got Oliver North lying to Congress about Reagan's dirty tricks. And who got him for it?

If investigative journalists were not out on the streets doing their jobs, we would never know of the lies we are being fed. This current troop of republicans lies too much and we Americans need people to go after them, bit by bit, department by department, issue by issue.

Again, facts, statistics, studies from properly vetted authorities, and witnesses.

 

[Camp]

Trumpaganda is a form of propaganda based almost entirely on disinformation and lies promoted almost entirely by Trump himself and echoed by his spokespeople.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Someday a prospective employer will see this on a resume.

 

[Lysistrata]

So teach a course on propaganda and see what you get. How many declarations made by politicians turn out to be false and/or not backed up by any reliable information? If someone says something, it's out there for the public. If someone in the media does the research and finds out that it isn't true, the politician is disseminating propaganda.

Some politicians put forth that when 5 people do something, it is 500 hundred or 5,000. Some politicians put forth that medical or scientific studies show something that no medical or scientific studies from respected medical research professionals actually show.

Yes, politicians are notorious at doling out misleading information but journalists have and use tactics to mislead as well. It seems this course has been designed to pretend the only propaganda comes from Trump and that’s simply not true. I’m not against studying tactics used by Trump but he’s far from the only distributor of propaganda.

What tactics used by journalists are misleading?

trump has been running a disinformation/propaganda campaign since Day One. Why not talk about it? I'm not against studying similar efforts by anti-trumps, but I'm not seeing any indication that it exists on any level. It's an accusation, but an accusation made by people who do not actually have any credibility.

You’re sooooooooooo naive it’s not even funny as is the one who marked this post “Winner.” Many journalists can tailor a story to their liking. That’s why nowadays just about anything you get from the news promotes a certain worldview even if it’s not outwardly obvious. Reporters can make things seem a certain way by leaving out relevant information that gets in the way of the narrative they’re trying to report. They can word questions to interviewees a certain way in hopes of getting a certain answer, which they’ve done to Trump many times.

Remember when Chris Matthews asked Trump “if abortion was illegal should women who get them be punished?” That was a gotcha question bc he knew Trump would say yes and you know how the news reported that? “Trump says women who get abortions should be punished!” WITHOUT mentioning the fact Matthews asked if it was illegal should they be punished. Now millions of people think Trump said something he didn’t fucking say.

Your ignorance angers me. Google “misleading tactics journalists” if the above example doesn’t register.

Oh, please.I don't give a shit that I make you angry. Poor you. He did say it and he has had a total record of sucking up to right-wing fundie so-called "Christians." The fact that someone asked him about it is not the violation. Chris Matthews had every right to ask him whether this was his view to put it put up to all Americans to see. Americans have every right to know what would happen if his love affair with the cults would result in the illegality of abortion, which these cults want, and therefore there would be "punishment" of Americans who had abortions.

You do understand that the orange whore sucks up to the cults? Be honest for a change. The cults are playing this game of abusing the legal system to impose their "religious" beliefs on other Americans to outlaw abortion and then assert that people who don't suck up to these ridiculous laws should be "punished."

Find some place to be honest.

 

[BookShaka]

So teach a course on propaganda and see what you get. How many declarations made by politicians turn out to be false and/or not backed up by any reliable information? If someone says something, it's out there for the public. If someone in the media does the research and finds out that it isn't true, the politician is disseminating propaganda.

Some politicians put forth that when 5 people do something, it is 500 hundred or 5,000. Some politicians put forth that medical or scientific studies show something that no medical or scientific studies from respected medical research professionals actually show.

Yes, politicians are notorious at doling out misleading information but journalists have and use tactics to mislead as well. It seems this course has been designed to pretend the only propaganda comes from Trump and that’s simply not true. I’m not against studying tactics used by Trump but he’s far from the only distributor of propaganda.

What tactics used by journalists are misleading?

trump has been running a disinformation/propaganda campaign since Day One. Why not talk about it? I'm not against studying similar efforts by anti-trumps, but I'm not seeing any indication that it exists on any level. It's an accusation, but an accusation made by people who do not actually have any credibility.

You’re sooooooooooo naive it’s not even funny as is the one who marked this post “Winner.” Many journalists can tailor a story to their liking. That’s why nowadays just about anything you get from the news promotes a certain worldview even if it’s not outwardly obvious. Reporters can make things seem a certain way by leaving out relevant information that gets in the way of the narrative they’re trying to report. They can word questions to interviewees a certain way in hopes of getting a certain answer, which they’ve done to Trump many times.

Remember when Chris Matthews asked Trump “if abortion was illegal should women who get them be punished?” That was a gotcha question bc he knew Trump would say yes and you know how the news reported that? “Trump says women who get abortions should be punished!” WITHOUT mentioning the fact Matthews asked if it was illegal should they be punished. Now millions of people think Trump said something he didn’t fucking say.

Your ignorance angers me. Google “misleading tactics journalists” if the above example doesn’t register.

Oh, please.I don't give a shit that I make you angry. Poor you. He did say it and he has had a total record of sucking up to right-wing fundie so-called "Christians." The fact that someone asked him about it is not the violation. Chris Matthews had every right to ask him whether this was his view to put it put up to all Americans to see. Americans have every right to know what would happen if his love affair with the cults would result in the illegality of abortion, which these cults want, and therefore there would be "punishment" of Americans who had abortions.

You do understand that the orange whore sucks up to the cults? Be honest for a change. The cults are playing this game of abusing the legal system to impose their "religious" beliefs on other Americans to outlaw abortion and then assert that people who don't suck up to these ridiculous laws should be "punished."

Find some place to be honest.

Wow would you look at that. You’re too stupid to understand the significance of Chris Matthew’s question to Trump and the resulting lie the media told regarding it. LMFAO color me surprised. You wanted to know journalist’s tactics of deception and I gave you an example with this ACTUAL THING THAT HAPPENED, yet by this reply I conclude you must be five years old. Now, that whole thing was a smear on Trump—which is a FACT—you know, that thing you said I needed to start providing?

Newsflash sweetheart: I DON’T lie.

And now YOU’RE feeding the lie Trump said women who get abortions should be punished. The anti-Trump propaganda makers would be proud.

This isn’t bragging bc it’s nothing to brag about, but you’re truly too asinine to converse with me. Buh-bye with your clueless self.

 

[danielpalos]

The University of Illinois- Champaign is offering a new course which examines U.S. propaganda in the Trump era and its effect on democracy and free press.

"Trumpaganda: The war on facts, press, and democracy" is a new journalism course being offered at the University of Illinois- Champaign later this month to analyze President Donald Trump’s, “disinformation campaign,” the ways in which he uses different methods of propaganda to defeat his “opponents,” and, its “implications for American democracy and a free press."

"It is critical to learn how to detect propaganda and recognize propagandistic features of any communication, including presidential.”

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The course is specifically centered around the President’s, “running war” with his media enemies, which he calls “fake news,” and how he uses textbook devices for propaganda that, “dominate,” his tweets, press conferences, and public statements.

The course also seeks to challenge students to question their assumption that propaganda is an uncommon practice in democratic societies.

According to her faculty profile, Mira Sotirovic, the professor teaching the course, has written extensively on the president’s rhetorical methods in the past. She also has an entire tab on her site devoted to her research on propaganda.

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The school's student newspaper, The Daily Illini, reached out to the university’s Journalism Department head, Stephanie Craft, for comment. Craft stated, “This particular course is the first of what we hope will be a series of what we’re thinking as pop-up courses, where we’re trying to identify things that are very in the news and build an eight-week course around it that would be of interest to the broader University community, not just journalism majors.”

The Daily Illini also heard from the Professor teaching the course. She stated, “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.”

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Dan Gainor, vice president of business and culture at Media Research Center, said the course "shows how far both academia and media have fallen. The course description pretends that the press never does anything wrong in its coverage of Trump and that he's the one pushing 'propaganda.'"

"The very name of the course, 'Trumpaganda,' shows that no student should expect an honest look at the subject matter," Gainor added. "I have news for anyone teaching this 'course.' If they think state-funded propaganda doesn't happen in democratic societies, I need to introduce them to PBS, NPR, and BBC, just for starters. All three push a liberal worldview and rely on taxpayer dollars to do it. Somehow I don't expect that to make the course selection for 2019."

Campus Reform reached out for comment to both Craft and Sotirovic, but has not heard back.

University of Illinois defends new 'Trumpaganda' course

Academia must have academic proof they are merely full of fallacy.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

So teach a course on propaganda and see what you get. How many declarations made by politicians turn out to be false and/or not backed up by any reliable information? If someone says something, it's out there for the public. If someone in the media does the research and finds out that it isn't true, the politician is disseminating propaganda.

Some politicians put forth that when 5 people do something, it is 500 hundred or 5,000. Some politicians put forth that medical or scientific studies show something that no medical or scientific studies from respected medical research professionals actually show.

Yes, politicians are notorious at doling out misleading information but journalists have and use tactics to mislead as well. It seems this course has been designed to pretend the only propaganda comes from Trump and that’s simply not true. I’m not against studying tactics used by Trump but he’s far from the only distributor of propaganda.

What tactics used by journalists are misleading?

trump has been running a disinformation/propaganda campaign since Day One. Why not talk about it? I'm not against studying similar efforts by anti-trumps, but I'm not seeing any indication that it exists on any level. It's an accusation, but an accusation made by people who do not actually have any credibility.

How about pictures?

Know what's worse? When called out the doubled down and defended it, saying it was because he was on wet grass and exhausted from reporting, lol.

Photogenic Generics

If ever called out on their dummy grammar, the presstitutes would say, "I was a Journalism major, not an English major."