John Pilger: 'I am posting a recent piece of mine on propaganda. When will journalism colleges open this vital page for those wishing to be journalists? As the academic year begins, is there a single course on Western propaganda? Or is this silence propaganda, too?'

John Pilger: Silencing The Lambs (How 3Propaganda Works)

August 22, 2023
In the 1970s, I met one of #Hitler’s leading propagandists, Leni Riefenstahl, whose epic films glorified the Nazis. We happened to be staying at the same lodge in #Kenya, where she was on a photography assignment, having escaped the fate of other friends of the Führer.
She told me that the “patriotic messages” of her films were dependent not on “orders from above” but on what she called the “submissive void” of the German public.
Did that include the liberal, educated bourgeoisie? I asked. “Yes, especially them,” she said.
I think of this as I look around at the propaganda now consuming Western societies.
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