Francesca Bolla Tripodi, “The Propagandists’ Playbook”
MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing
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How Deep Stories Collide With Ideological Dialogues
In the U.S., people often search for information that's going to be the same no matter what they put into it. But these searches become problematic when they collide with "deep stories" These are narratives that have been told and retold so many times that you don't need to hear the whole story to know the moral of the story. The American Dream is a very deep story, but words like 'picking oneself up by their bootstraps' may not reflect your worldview or cultural perspective. An ideological dialect that quickly gained traction in 2022 was the catchphrase stop the steal.
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