“When we look for propaganda, we have the obvious job of asking what messages are being propagated.”

— Randal Marlin

Source: Propaganda & The Ethics Of Persuasion (2002), Chapter Eight, Propaganda, Democracy, And the Internet, p. 302

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Canadian academic 1938

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