Another side of Andy Borowitz

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

51. Yep. RW media is expertly-delivered propaganda, using all the tried and true techniques.

You can't get away with that in schools if you're trying to in any way challenge to RW narrative. Now, it you just put Fox New on the tv in the classroom 90% of the day, nearly half the parents would be happy.

But, as you say, well-educated people can fall for propaganda, too. Some evidence suggests they're even more likely to.

Psychological research shows that misinformation is cleverly designed to bypass careful analytical reasoning, meaning that it can easily slip under the radar of even the most intelligent and educated people. No one is completely immune. Indeed, there is now evidence that smarter people may sometimes be even more vulnerable to certain ideas, since their greater brainpower simply allows them to rationalise their (incorrect) beliefs. Fortunately, the research also offers us some strategies to overcome those biases.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/apr/01/why-smart-people-are-more-likely-to-believe-fake-news