Sputnik Shows Propaganda Wars Alive and Well

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Sputnik Shows Propaganda Wars Alive and Well

Background Information
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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    Venessa
    Mon, 04/27/2015 - 10:18
    Venessa
    Having a U.S. politician discuss the Putin's tactics. Maybe create resentment.
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    Sarah
    Thu, 06/08/2017 - 21:00
    Sarah
    This activates emotion because it gives the viewer an idea that propaganda is a real issue and something needs to be done to help control the amount of propaganda within the world that changes peoples views and can cause major issues
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    G Paul
    Sun, 11/12/2017 - 01:29
    G Paul
    I don't think this particular photo and caption does much of anything. It doesn't provoke any real emotion in me because both the caption and photo are not as sensationalistic to do that. It doesn't even pique my interest to read more. We see too many of these headlines that they have become commonplace and after reading many of these types of articles, and seen the bias behind it, I have become more jaded about its actual intent. In other words, this piece doesn't make me care.

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