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OnyxCollie

(9,958 posts)
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Tue Mar 19, 2013, 10:59 AM
Mar 2013

On the other hand, much that is characterized as propaganda comprises undeniable facts. Mr. Brisbane points out the relative smallness of our airplane defenses. Is this propaganda? The conclusion that we should immensely enhance our expenditures on military and naval aircraft may be argumentative, but it is not essentially deception. The Junior Chamber of Commerce urges that the use of school buildings be denied to Communist groups. Whether or not the practice thus urged is sound public policy is a matter of opinion, not fact. Mr. Hearst (as Mr. Coolidge did in his Delineator articles, when Vice-President) declares that our colleges are permeated with "reds." This may or may not be a fact, according to the definition given to the term "red." What the facts mean, and what should be done about them, if anything, are matters of opinion.

It should be pointed out, moreover, that not everything taught in the schools can be definitely labeled as fact. Perhaps the data of mathematics are facts; yet the examples given for solution in any given textbook of arithmetic or algebra may-can, in truth-scarcely escape embodying a point of view concerning economic institutions. A school reader containing stories of the lives of great men may inculcate Carlylean individualism; a community civics may, on the other hand, stress ideals of and co6peration the importance of the group. A high school economics text (if it be several years old) may indicate that the Federal Reserve Act made depressions
impossible or unlikely. Through all the writing and teaching of the social subjects runs inevitably a current of interpretation. The spoils system may be described as an evil that should be abolished; it may be stated that the Supreme Court interprets, but never makes law; the Spanish-American War may be referred to as a humanitarian undertaking designed to save Cubans from oppression. These are not facts, but opinions about facts.

Wooddy, C. H. (1935). Education and propaganda. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, 179, 228-229.

All I can say about that study is...pew tularetom Mar 2013 #1
Pew had to have a panel House of Roberts Mar 2013 #2
Dan Rather, and the real news was character asssassinated. RIP to those days graham4anything Mar 2013 #3
If you're dismissive of opinion, it makes sense to be upset. Robb Mar 2013 #4
Pew Research is a direct organizational descendant of Sun Oil Company.... OldDem2012 Mar 2013 #5
+1 Scuba Mar 2013 #6
And their 2naSalit Mar 2013 #17
PEEEE-EWWWW ReRe Mar 2013 #7
I think it makes a lot of sense: The Straight Story Mar 2013 #8
CNNs so called objectivity has 2 repugs talking to every one Democratic and progressive guest samsingh Mar 2013 #9
I agree MoonchildCA Mar 2013 #10
+1 OnyxCollie Mar 2013 #14
Just another attempt to make MSNBC seem like AlbertCat Mar 2013 #11
Me too! That was my first thought when I saw the article about the study. JDPriestly Mar 2013 #12
PEW mtasselin Mar 2013 #13
Pew is a right-leaning organization with ties to the John Birch society Samantha Mar 2013 #15
I don't see where you dreampunk Mar 2013 #20
It's Pew EC Mar 2013 #16
Thank you for posting - one can contact Pew dreampunk Mar 2013 #18
If those... DirtyDawg Mar 2013 #19
There is nothing wrong with commentary moondust Mar 2013 #21
So, I like MSNBC "opinion" better than "FOX" opinion. You know it hurts when facts must be called kelliekat44 Mar 2013 #22
In the U.S. Media, "The sky is blue" becomes an "Opinion" ThoughtCriminal Mar 2013 #23
This one was really flawed and biased. Cleita Mar 2013 #24
The M$M is kinda like Lizard Lick Towing. Rex Mar 2013 #25
What exactly does Pew call Fox "News" Channel? Dawson Leery Mar 2013 #26
It is pretty much all opinion... OneMoreDemocrat Mar 2013 #27
MSNBC has a lot of opinion shows Shankapotomus Mar 2013 #28
The format of MSNBC shows MoonchildCA Mar 2013 #29
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