{"id":3607,"date":"2014-12-27T10:22:37","date_gmt":"2014-12-27T15:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3607"},"modified":"2014-12-27T10:22:37","modified_gmt":"2014-12-27T15:22:37","slug":"2014-the-year-propaganda-came-of-age-the-automatic-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3607","title":{"rendered":"2014: The Year Propaganda Came Of Age – The Automatic Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"

2014: The Year Propaganda Came Of Age – The Automatic Earth<\/a>.<\/p>\n

From just about as early in my life as I can remember, growing up as a child in Holland, there were stories about World War II, and not just about Anne Frank and the huge amounts of people who, like her, had been dragged off to camps in eastern Europe never to come back, but also about the thousands who had risked their lives to hide Jewish and other refugees, and the scores who had been executed for doing so, often betrayed by their own neighbors.<\/p>\n

And then there were those who had risked their lives in equally courageous ways to get news out to people, putting out newspapers and radio broadcasts just so there would be a version of events out there that was real, and not just what the Germans wanted one to believe. This happened in all Nazi \u2013 and Nazi friendly \u2013 occupied European nations. The courage of these people is hard to gauge for us today, and I\u2019m convinced there\u2019s no way to say whom amongst us would show that kind of bravery if we were put to the test; I certainly wouldn\u2019t be sure about myself.<\/p>\n

Still, without wanting to put myself anywhere near the level of those very very real heroes, please don\u2019t get me wrong about that, that\u2019s not what I mean, I was thinking about them with regards to what is happening in our media today. I\u2019ve mentioned before that I don\u2019t think Joseph Goebbels had anything on US and European media today.<\/p>\n

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