Welcome to Keith's night. Don't tread on anyone in the
libertarian Institute. Here is an excerpt from the book
hoaxed in the interview with Stefan.
Molyneux. The interviewer asks, what is
the difference between news and propaganda Stefan molyneux
responds. So, the difference between news
and propaganda is very blurry in many ways because there's no
such thing as objective news. I mean, I'm fully onboard with
that. I'm no postmodernist, but as far
That goes, when I choose to do a story, you choose to do a story.
We do. So, for a particular reason,
there was a near Infinity of stories that you could do at any
point during the day, and the ones that you choose are because
it fits into a particular goal. And I think, as long as people
are open and honest about that, that's one of the differences
between the New Media and the old media, the New Media say,
yeah. I've got biases.
Yeah, I've got preferences, you have got a goal.
Yeah, maybe I even have an agenda and I'm up front about
it. Whereas the old media has all of
this pseudo. Objectivity camouflage designed
to cloak what they're really up to.
So propaganda to me is when you have a goal and you work
backwards from there saying, what do I need to say to achieve
my goal, like you go and buy a car you're going on to the car
lot and maybe you buy a car. Maybe you don't.
So, you know that the car. Man wants you to sign on the
line so he can get his commission.
Now. He probably also wants you to
have a good experience, buying the car say.
So you'll bring some friends and come back or whatever, but he is
working backwards from the signature saying, okay, here are
the steps that I need to take in order to get you to and they say
it openly. What do I need to say to get
your signature on the dotted line.
What do I need to say to get you driving out of here in a new
car? Right?
I mean they're very open about that.
That they have a goal propaganda is when you have a goal that you
want people to do. X Y, or Z.
Propaganda is like a hippie dog in a way.
So propaganda is when you want people to do something
specifically and you work your way back from that.
And when you don't say that, again, you watch an
advertisement and people show you some tasty beer.
They want you to put your money down and try this beer.
All right, Fair. Everyone knows that everyone
knows it's not an objective beer.
Analysis, it's, you know, by this beer, but when you do have
a specific goal, which for the mainstream media is vote,
Democrat or support some big government program, or don't
control immigration because immigration is a source of
leftist boats, when they have that as a goal and they don't
state it, either explicitly or implicitly but they claim to be
objective, but they are as driven as the used car salesman
in getting you to try and do something that to me, is where
the real propaganda. Is the moment somebody says,
okay. Here's my agenda.
Here's my preference and I'm going to try and lead you to the
truth because I believe my own agenda and that the truth are
as, you know, mostly United that to me is not propaganda, because
you are being open about what your goal is.
You're transparent about your methodologies.
And your goal is to try and Enlighten people rather than get
them to do something that serves your interest without telling
them. That's your goal.