Dilemma for Every Citizen
Determining Fact from Fake News
I am fairly up there in age and grew up in a military family, to give the reader context for my views. I was constantly exposed to propaganda, and thus censorship, especially when overseas. The Armed Forces Radio Service, Army rarely had Television services, supplied a steady stream of historical tidbits which I later discovered was propaganda. In fact, my precollege education was nearly all propaganda, some of which we were challenging; after all, it was the ’60s. Government propaganda and censorship was portrayed as heavy-handed in movies like Fahrenheit 451 and 1984. Little did I realize that this too was propaganda but from a more insidious source: Hollywood, masters of propaganda and censorship. Continue reading “Voluntary Censorship the Best”