Media ecosystems that repeat threat narratives don’t inform audiences—they train them to interpret the world as permanent crisis.
Loyalty, not credibility, is the core currency of propaganda, sustained through repetition and selective silence rather than persuasion.
When reality intrudes, propaganda adapts by changing topics, not by correcting falsehoods.
Edwin and Juliet frame a media environment where outrage is not a byproduct but the product itself, engineered to keep viewers locked into a closed emotional loop. What matters most in that loop is not whether claims hold up, but whether they reinforce identity and grievance in a way that feels stabilizing to the audience. Over time, this produces a politics where contradiction doesn’t weaken belief—it strengthens it by deepening mistrust of everything outside the system. The danger isn’t just misinformation, but the normalization of disengagement from shared reality, where evidence becomes optional and repetition substitutes for truth. In that world, power doesn’t need persuasion anymore; it only needs attention and fear to keep cycling.
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Protests or Riots? Right-wing Media Is Spreading Trump Propaganda. Again.
Here are two headlines about the very same story. One is telling you the truth, the other is spinning Trump propaganda:
