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True story. After the 2016 election, there was a panel discussion. They had all the creators of the top US political TV dramas; The West Wing: Scandal: Veep: House of Cards and others. Every writer and producer said the same thing. If they’d had a character who said that they ‘liked soldiers who didn’t get captured’ the advertisers and network bosses would have demanded that the character be hated by all Americans.

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South Park And SNL both commented that our 2016 situation was too ridiculous to parody

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Back in the 1960s, it was a common joke that ronald reagan would never be President because no one would vote for a guy who co-starred with a monkey.

Today’s GOP would ignore reagan and run the monkey

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Heck dude at this point I’d run to vote for the monkey!

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So…that story basically confirms all programming (I mean not cooking shows) is propaganda, doesn’t it?

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By that logic, every single drama since the dawn of time is ‘propaganda.’

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Propaganda implies that the message being pushed is for the sake of convincing the population of some doctrine. The network is trying to cater to an already held public belief for the sake of dollars.

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Some is just entertainment, but yeah, most is trying to sell a message

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