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Re:Illinois Is the First State to Have High Schools Teach Ne... by IIAOPSW on Friday August 13, 2021 @11:24AM (#28170067)
>what's going on in journalism programs around the country that is allowing for so much unabashedly propagandist content to be pushed out under the guise of "journalism"?

It takes two to tango. People get propagandist content because they willingly consume propagandist content. They like it. If people really wanted to be informed, they would watch C-Span all the time and the usual networks would be relegated to niche interest.

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Re:Illinois Is the First State to Have High Schools Teach Ne... by acituan on Friday August 13, 2021 @12:11PM (#28170780)
> People get propagandist content because they willingly consume propagandist content. They like it.

More like that content creates engagement and ad money, and people respond to it even though they feel worse. (Not exclusive to news, social media too)

By the way people also like hyper-palatable processed food and that doesn’t mean we get to ignore the material consequences of the obesity epidemic.

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Re:Illinois Is the First State to Have High Schools Teach Ne... by ethbr0 on Friday August 13, 2021 @11:47AM (#28170460)
C-Span makes my brain cry.

In the words of Obama (paraphrased from Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee), when asked about how smart people in Congress are: 'You've got good people on both sides. You've got a lot of foolish people, but you've got some smart folks too.'

... Unfortunately, everyone gets equal time to speak.

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