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Renee Hobbs

Propaganda
“A most mischievous word”: Neil Postman’s approach to propaganda education
Renee Hobbs
Before there was a term called media literacy education, there was an interdisciplinary group of writers and thinkers who taught people to guard themselves against the manipulative power of language. One of the leaders of this group was Neil Postman, known for his best-selling book published in 1985, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business.