Toward a Ministry of Propaganda

[ZiprHead]

I was just about to re-up my subscription I let lapse last year. Now I won't.

 

[GenesisNemesis]

It's not hard to ignore if you have your head in the sand and are particularly naive.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

The WashPo editor for Headlines and their op-ed board have issues! They want to publish conservative op-ed's, great. The thing is, they are publishing Op-Ed board editorials that are bothersome, that are 'both siding' things, minimizing the extreme's he has gone to within the existing precedence of the US Government. And then the front page headlines often soften the blow of what is happening. This isn't everything, but it occurs.

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

.... It led me to think less about individual acts of misinformation and more about how systemic changes--initiated under Trump--have altered the way information is controlled or obstructed. ....


Government Agencies/Cabinets

• Without the consent of the Senate or an impeachment process, removal of inspectors general across agencies to reduce objectivity, transparency, and reporting mechanisms
• Without just cause, created a climate within the DoJ that will consider various media outlets to be illegal when they do not follow the Trump doctrine
• Targeting colleges that educate students of reality where it disagrees with Trump doctrine by defunding them, with a goal of creating new generations of conservative college graduates
• Reshaped the DOJ's civil rights division to prioritize executive orders aligned with his agenda, paving the way for biased enforcement and politicized narratives around issues like alleged anti-Christian discrimination

What we are seeing is a deliberate march toward consolidating narrative control: reward those who obey, erase or punish those who don’t. Whether by defunding, firing, restructuring, or installing yes-men, the goal is clear—control what the public sees, hears, and ultimately believes. This goes far beyond political favoritism; it’s an attack on the very idea of objective information. Science, journalism, education, and the arts are being bent to serve a single political narrative. And in doing so, the administration isn't just breaking norms—it’s laying the groundwork for authoritarian-style information control.

So to review, what I have tried to focus on in this thread isn't singular news events of propagandizing something, but instead structural and institutional changes that are intended to have a long-term impact on American ideology, information control. I've highlighted a bullet point from the op because there is another event in the news related to college education.

Hegseth cancels troop attendance at top-ranked schools​

This is an attempt by the Administration to exert financial pressure on universities not to teach fact-based history, to force education to elite officers and possibly other students with government propaganda. Now, if the universities do not comply, either more pressure will be exerted or the government will send officers to universities that will comply and may want the money. As the head of the military, Kegsbreath even calls the left "the enemy," which should be indicative of the ideology of all the brainwashed military officers they want to create in the future.

 

[Elixir]

“What we are seeing is a deliberate march toward consolidating narrative control”

The march is over. Control is practically complete. Dull minded followers and deluded libbertard enablers vastly outnumber people who are willing to stand up to this junta.

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

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Press and Media

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• Undermining press freedom by punishing media outlets—through bans from Oval Office briefings and exclusion from direct military coverage
• Exerting control over the FCC to criminally target networks that could be critical of him

Revoking licenses or threatening to approve them is another form of punishment.

FCC Chair Brendan Carr says broadcast licenses are not a "property right," as Trump bemoans coverage of Iran war

In an exclusive interview with CBS News Saturday, Federal Communications Chair Brendan Carr doubled down on his warning that broadcast licenses could be revoked amid President Trump's criticisms of media coverage of the war in Iran.

www.cbsnews.com

 

[crazyfingers]

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Press and Media

• ...
• Undermining press freedom by punishing media outlets—through bans from Oval Office briefings and exclusion from direct military coverage
• Exerting control over the FCC to criminally target networks that could be critical of him

Revoking licenses or threatening to approve them is another form of punishment.

FCC Chair Brendan Carr says broadcast licenses are not a "property right," as Trump bemoans coverage of Iran war

In an exclusive interview with CBS News Saturday, Federal Communications Chair Brendan Carr doubled down on his warning that broadcast licenses could be revoked amid President Trump's criticisms of media coverage of the war in Iran.

www.cbsnews.com

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Carr is a fascist tool. He can not revoke these licenses and he knows it. There are major 1st amendment prohibitions. He would loose.

But he's trying to scare people to stay in the good graces of his Lord Trump.

In any other time he'd be impeached.

Now he's just one more fascist scumbag who reports to the scumbag in chief.