{"id":3700,"date":"2020-10-27T11:47:09","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T11:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3700"},"modified":"2020-10-27T11:47:09","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T11:47:09","slug":"call-it-what-it-is-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3700","title":{"rendered":"Call It What It Is: Propaganda"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> &#8220;This ad campaign, as dramatic as it is, is only the most recent instance of the executive branch blurring the line between informing the public and propagandizing it. It is a problem that our representative democracy has had a hard time dealing with for the past century. But since information is the lifeblood of democracy, it\u2019s a problem we need to get a handle on if we\u2019re going to have a chance of repairing our battered political system.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2020\/10\/08\/government-communication-propaganda-427290\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2020\/10\/08\/government-communication-propaganda-427290<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;This ad campaign, as dramatic as it is, is only the most recent instance of the executive branch blurring the line between informing the public and propagandizing it. It is a problem that our representative democracy has had a hard time dealing with for the past century. But since information is the lifeblood of democracy, it\u2019s a problem we need to get a handle on if we\u2019re going to have a chance of repairing our battered political system.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[134],"class_list":["post-3700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-propaganda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3701,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3700\/revisions\/3701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}