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Sputnik Shows Propaganda Wars Alive and Well
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AP photo by Carolyn Castor used on March 6, 2015 by Sputnik News, a Russian government agency, with added titles for the news story about how U.S. Congressman Ed Royce said U.S. government media needs reform and gets "beaten" by "Putin's propaganda."
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This is propaganda because
This photo & caption normalize propaganda as a gov't function from the Russian P.O.V., and place the U.S. government as an adversary in competition b/t propagandistic gov't media outlets. Reminds us that old school propaganda wars are alive and well.
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