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Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway: The Big Myth of Market Fundamentalism

Economics & Beyond with Rob Johnson

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The Importance of Propaganda in Power

In the late 1950s, Reagan goes to work for GE He had a television show called General Electric Theater Which they hired him to host. Through this, his voice, his face was beamed Into millions and millions of American homes Every week for several years So he became one of the most well-known people in the United States at that time. In addition Hosting GE Theater was only half his job The other half was serving as a public spokesperson for GE And he went on the lecture circuit Particularly in GE communities Going to GE factories, manufacturing plants Giving talks in schools and communities Where there was a GE factory Doing a dinner at the rotary or the lion's club Then all of this would

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