One thing I noticed in yesterday's press conference is that the Russian media was there to advance their national agenda, while the American media was there to put their President on the spot. They succeeded in doing that, and he answered in a way that was as bad a fit as possible for the context he was in. He'll pay a price for that, I imagine, although raising the issue of why the Department of Justice won't examine the DNC or Congressional servers in that context may force an actual answer to the question.
FOX News, though, sent Chris Wallace to advance the American agenda in another context. He was quite effective, though Putin remains a master of propaganda.
Putin is good at propaganda ,but not enough to bypass other experts and masters of the art.
ReplyDeleteOne sign that he knows what he is doing is that he tries not to lie or present falsehoods. Trum and Hussein both had different styles but their style was more power than propaganda.
Power is the ability to make an untruth into the truth, thus removing the whole "lie" label process. The most powerful propaganda is the truth, it is also the cheapest.
The direction of a master propagandist is not to create illusions but to make it easier for humans to accept the truth given the human tendency to reject the truth. It makes the truth more palatable, more popular, and easier to digest. Some people prefer to spin stories out of subjective whole cloth, but they cannot easily become experts due to that personal flaw. A propagandist is no longer a propagandist when they believe their own constructions. The constructions are always for other people to subsume, as the propagandist must see the objective and only objective truth.