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Re:Pentagon and CIA shaped thousands of Hollywood movies int... by janimo on Friday January 07, 2022 @03:15AM (#29836426)
one difference is that authoritarian regimes have been known to infuse everything with state propaganda, whereas almost nobody expects this from western democracies, showing just how much more subtle and even effective the latter can be.
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Re:Pentagon and CIA shaped thousands of Hollywood movies int... by rnd0 on Friday January 07, 2022 @03:37AM (#29836591)
>whereas almost nobody expects this from western democracies

Are you joking? Ever since 9/11 the US has been pumping out propaganda disguised as entertainment like gangbusters! It's really obvious when you go and watch reruns of old copaganda shows from 03 to 06, and then there's "24". Of course there's also blatant ra-ra Military propaganda like J.A.G. and NCIS

It's not surprising to see outright propaganda from the US, it's surprising how many decades it's taken for people to begin to call it what it is. Surprising and depressing.

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Re:Pentagon and CIA shaped thousands of Hollywood movies int... by goodpoint on Friday January 07, 2022 @04:19AM (#29836942)
What you wrote is true, but it's astonishing how people tolerate having an industrial production of propaganda (since WW2) in what should be a democracy.
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Re:Pentagon and CIA shaped thousands of Hollywood movies int... by MrYellowP on Friday January 07, 2022 @06:33AM (#29837890)
Democracy and propaganda aren't mutually exclusive. Plus, the US isn't a democracy. In fact, most countries banging the democracy-propaganda-horn aren't actually democracies. Austria, for example, is a Republic. Democracy is just a smokescreen.
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Re:Pentagon and CIA shaped thousands of Hollywood movies int... by goodpoint on Friday January 07, 2022 @02:58PM (#29843938)
> ... aren't actually democracies. Austria, for example, is a Republic

"republic" and "democracy" are in no way mutually exclusive terms.

On the contrary, the overlap very often. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic for a definition.

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