OK this will generate a variety of comments

[malaise]

http://voiceofrussia.com/2014_05_12/Americans-still-unaware-they-are-victims-of-US-govt-propaganda-manipulation-expert-0903/
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Most Americans do not realize that they are victims of propaganda and manipulation, according to Lawrence Davidson, a professor of history at West Chester University in Pennsylvania. Americans are culturally conditioned to believe that their country is the foundation of freedom and truth and they have neither knowledge nor interest to fact-check what their leaders and media tell them, deems the professor.

"Perhaps the grossest ongoing censorship of all is the culturally conditioned, narrow range of opinion fed to the vast majority of Americans by their own media. The narrow range of views offered creates a uniform background noise hiding most of what is at variance with the standard message. In other words, media practices constitute de facto censorship," notes Lawrence Davidson in his article 'How the US Propaganda System Works.'

An exception, according to the author, is the popular "Daily Show with Jon Stewart" on the Comedy Central TV channel, which presents the only critique of US leadership, its domestic and foreign policy. However, the critical remarks may be expressed only in the form of comical political satire.

Those who oppose the mainstream are being toughly suppressed by Obama's administration through "attacking sources, conducting surveillance, creating a climate of fear, and prosecuting double the amount of cases for alleged leaks of classified information as all previous administrations combined,", according to the Committee to Protect Journalists report issued at the end of 2013.
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[Fumesucker]

1. ...

[FBaggins]

2. and the most obvious comment...

... is the irony of finding a story stretching the definition of "propaganda" on a source (VOR) for which no such stretching is required.

[malaise]

7. One hand can't clap

Both spew lies.

[FBaggins]

8. Sorry... Nope.

One "hand" is an explicitly propagandist (essentially by definition) outlet.

The other refers to the entire American 4th estate - which in no way acts as a single body. There are outlets that are just this side of propaganda tools for one group or another, but hardly all of them... particularly since they most often oppose one another.

In no sense a "narrow range of views" - particularly when you add in the surge of the 5th estate. Even the author's pretty-whacky viewpoint is well represented within media that the American public can easily access.

[RKP5637]

3. ... awful lot of group think and propaganda in the US IMO, cuts across all

political parties and life in general, sometimes hard to find the 'real' truth.

[Adrahil]

4. Welp, I'll give you credit for audacity...

Posting something from Voice of Russia complaining about American Propaganda.

Then I went to their "Russia" news page and not a SINGLE article critical of the Russian government. Color me surprised.

I'll anxiously await the article talking about how Russians are unaware they are victims of propaganda. I bet I'll be waiting a long, LONG time.

[Scuba]

5. VOR is both correct and hypocritical on this issue.

[malaise]

6. The sooner we all realize that all sides spew propaganda

is the sooner we'll save our planet.
Is there a difference between Voice of America and Voice of Russia?