Propaganda

Civics 101

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History, Government, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 29 November 2022

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Summary

Propaganda is a piece of information designed to make you think or do something specific. So how does it work? Today on Civics 101, John Maxwell Hamilton (professor and author of Manipulating the Masses: Woodrow Wilson and the Birth of American Propaganda) and Jennifer Mercieca (professor and author of Demagogue for President: The Rhetorical Genius of Donald Trump) take us through the Federalist Papers, the Committee on Public Intelligence, the Four Minute Men, amygdala highjacking, and the myriad ways propagandists take advantage of our best intentions to achieve a result. CLICK HERE: Visit our website to see all of our episodes, donate to the podcast, sign up for our newsletter, get free educational materials, and more! To see Civics 101 in book form, check out A User's Guide to Democracy: How America Works by Hannah McCarthy and Nick Capodice, featuring illustrations by Tom Toro. Check out our other weekly NHPR podcast, Outside/In - we think you'll love it! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What did you say your favorite card was again?
0:06.8	Six of diamonds.
0:07.8	No, I didn't say it was the jack card.
0:12.3	All right, I'm going to do a magic trick.
0:15.9	Do me a favor, cut that deck anywhere you want.
0:18.9	Now I'm going to just leave these here until the end of the recording.
0:22.9	I'm not going to touch them.
0:24.4	All right?
0:25.4	This by the way is one of the first tricks I ever learned.
0:28.1	If anybody out there listening, I'm a terrible, terrible magician.
0:32.1	But this is a technique called a force.
0:34.4	What's a force?
0:35.4	A force is when someone like takes a card believing that they had a choice, but they don't.
0:39.8	I told you to cut the deck randomly and you take the card you cut to, but I'm forcing
0:44.5	you to take the card I want.
0:47.0	Choice is an illusion here, Hannah.
0:50.8	And it doesn't just happen with cards.
0:53.2	Interesting stories about dead people voting.
0:58.1	Wow, amazing.
0:59.6	What pre and pair of elections we all have confidence in.
1:02.1	The sharing of bias and false news has become all too common on the line.
1:06.2	I think it was one of the coldest July's we've had in so long.
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