The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - 'indoctrination', we might say - exercised through the mass media.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
The press is our chief ideological weapon.
As I look back at the span of the Cold War in those early days, in the '50s, for example, there was a great deal of Soviet propaganda here in the United States, but it was clumsy, and it was anchored to a lot of ideological support in certain circles in America itself.
The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent.
We are the United States of Amnesia, which is encouraged by a media that has no desire to tell us the truth about anything, serving their corporate masters who have other plans to dominate us.
Half a world away nations that once lived under oppression and tyranny are now budding democracies due in large part to America 's leadership and the sacrifices of our military.
It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale.
It is now such a complex society in terms of media. It just comes at us from every direction. You kind of have to push it all away.
The Americans' position is clear: we promote democracy.
The USA experiences the crisis of ideological and moral values.