Trump Stacks US Media Agency With Loyalists - Rachel Maddow

[jimmyzvoice]

Trump has installed a crony to decimate the Voice of America, Radio Free Europe and the other United States media agencies. His crony has fired all the directors and board members in all of these agencies. Is this the beginning of a Trump global media organization? This cannot be good. (11:45)

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. your OP wording makes it sound like Rachel is an acolyte! consider an edit!

[samnsara]

2. Joe will have a LONG list of trump*s sins to fix.. we will have to give Joe the..

...time and support to do it. Kids in cages, judges to replace, restoring the worlds faith in America etc etc etc. Add this to the mess trump*s made. Almost like its been thrown in Joes lap on purpose.

[soothsayer]

3. Read this as "Trump hires Rachel Maddow, an acolyte of Steve Bannon"

Having gotten past that...

I guess Trump is creating a propaganda machine. Probably always has been one to some extent but now it will be, bigtime, since this latest “night of the long knives.”

Feels like Putin’s playbook.

November can’t come a moment too soon.

[Squinch]

4. Repeating NRaleighLiberal's comment. It looks like you are saying Rachel is the Bannon acolyte.

[jimmyzvoice]

5. Thank you for correcting me...

I think I have it right now.

[NurseJackie]

6. Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reich_Ministry_of_Public_Enlightenment_and_Propaganda

Origin

Founded on 14 March 1933, a few months after the Nazi seizure of power by Adolf Hitler's government, it was headed by Reich Minister Joseph Goebbels.[1] The role of the new ministry, which set up its offices in the 18th-century Ordenspalais across from the Reich Chancellery, was to centralise Nazi control of all aspects of German cultural and intellectual life.[2] An unstated goal was to present to other nations the impression that the Nazi Party had the full and enthusiastic backing of the entire population.[3] Censorship in Germany was vital to the Nazi's retention of political control. It was responsible for controlling the German news media, literature, visual arts, filmmaking, theatre, music, and broadcasting.

Propaganda

As the central office of Nazi propaganda, it comprehensively supervised and regulated the culture and mass media of Nazi Germany.[4] A major focus of the propaganda was Hitler himself, who was glorified as a heroic and infallible leader and became the focus of a cult of personality.[5] Much of this was spontaneous, but some was stage-managed as part of Goebbels' propaganda work.[6] An example of the latter would be the 1934 Nuremberg Rally. Hitler was the focus and his moves were carefully choreographed. The rally was the subject of the film Triumph of the Will, one of several Nazi propaganda films directed by Leni Riefenstahl. It won the Gold Medal at the 1935 Venice Film Festival.[7] Goebbels and his ministry were involved in both the rally and the film production.

Organization

The ministry was organized into seven departments.[4]

Division I: Administration and legal
Division II: Mass rallies; public health; youth; race
Division III: Broadcasting
Division IV: National and foreign press
Division V: Films and film censorship
Division VI: Art, music, and theatre
Division VII: Protection against counter-propaganda, both foreign and domestic

[Stuart G]

7. K and R....Thank You for posting