1.
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1.
Who owns this magazine/website?
2.
Who owns the company who owns the magazine/website?
3.
What company owns the company that owns the
company who owns the magazine/website?
4.
What companies advertise with them? Who are
their charities? What are their political motivations?
5.
Who is the author writing this article? Where
did they go to school?
6.
How old are they? What is education level? What
is their motivation? Fame? Money?
7.
How much of this article is opinion? How much of
this article is fact? What are the slants? What emotion is this article trying
to inflame? Anger, Sadness, Pain, insecurity, Fear-what do you think of?
8.
What news organizations do I listen to that are
completely opposite? So I can cross check the information this magazine/website
puts out. (Check out who owns that magazine/website also)
9.
Read formal definition of propaganda. Webster's
dictionary. Wikipedia. Youtube. Look for definitions – literary examples – cultivate
an eye – rhetoric – opinion – debate
10. Watch
for "tricks" plays on words, doublespeak, vague words,
misrepresentation, misleading descriptions, opinions on the information, keep
balanced, use reason.
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Lesson one – if you spent more time or a
lot of time looking at the girl rather than using your mind, you fell victim to
a kind of propaganda – namely titillation
(side boob style).
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