| Chapter 1: | The Quandary of Propaganda as News |
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Chapter 1
The Quandary of Propaganda
as News
The industry’s decline is not due to ideology, but to the fact that it was slow to recognize and react to the threat the Internet represented.
—Leonard Pitts, Miami Herald syndicated columnist,
March 20, 2009
Dominant ideologies and corporate interests which benefit from those ideologies are always happy to use propaganda via whatever media are available.
—Philip Taylor, Munitions of the Mind, 2003
There is little doubt that many Americans feel conflicted about the state of today’s news media. Even in an age of increasing news options on the Internet, the public often considers traditional journalism outlets the preferred source for daily news accounts. News media scholars Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel said that citizens have long prized journalism that provides them with valuable information to navigate today’s world and