About this episode

The episode discusses the importance of understanding scale in political propaganda and analyzes a successful smear campaign.

Episode 990 of The Professional Left takes a step back from the daily chaos to talk about something the mainstream media almost never bothers with — scale — and why understanding it is the difference between seeing propaganda clearly and getting played by it every single time. Driftglass and Blue Gal run the actual numbers on one of the most successful political smear campaigns of the last decade, and what those numbers reveal about how a fringe slogan gets laundered into a party platform by ...

People in this episode

Hosts: Driftglass, Blue Gal

Topics covered

• media analysis
• political propaganda
• political campaigns
• slogan laundering
• scale in politics

Keywords

• political smear
• mainstream media
• propaganda
• slogan laundering
• political analysis

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: mainstream media, political smear campaigns, party platform

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