Welcome to Keith's night. Don't tread on anyone in the libertarian Institute. Here is an excerpt from the book hoaxed in the interview with Stefan. Molyneux. The interviewer asks, what is the difference between news and propaganda Stefan molyneux responds. So, the difference between news and propaganda is very blurry in many ways because there's no such thing as objective news. I mean, I'm fully onboard with
that. I'm no postmodernist, but as far That goes, when I choose to do a story, you choose to do a story. We do. So, for a particular reason, there was a near Infinity of stories that you could do at any point during the day, and the ones that you choose are because it fits into a particular goal. And I think, as long as people are open and honest about that, that's one of the differences between the New Media and the old media, the New Media say, yeah. I've got biases.
Yeah, I've got preferences, you have got a goal. Yeah, maybe I even have an agenda and I'm up front about it. Whereas the old media has all of this pseudo. Objectivity camouflage designed to cloak what they're really up to. So propaganda to me is when you have a goal and you work backwards from there saying, what do I need to say to achieve my goal, like you go and buy a car you're going on to the car lot and maybe you buy a car. Maybe you don't.
So, you know that the car. Man wants you to sign on the line so he can get his commission. Now. He probably also wants you to have a good experience, buying the car say. So you'll bring some friends and come back or whatever, but he is working backwards from the signature saying, okay, here are the steps that I need to take in order to get you to and they say it openly. What do I need to say to get your signature on the dotted line.
What do I need to say to get you driving out of here in a new car? Right? I mean they're very open about that. That they have a goal propaganda is when you have a goal that you want people to do. X Y, or Z. Propaganda is like a hippie dog in a way. So propaganda is when you want people to do something specifically and you work your way back from that. And when you don't say that, again, you watch an advertisement and people show you some tasty beer.
They want you to put your money down and try this beer. All right, Fair. Everyone knows that everyone knows it's not an objective beer.
Analysis, it's, you know, by this beer, but when you do have a specific goal, which for the mainstream media is vote, Democrat or support some big government program, or don't control immigration because immigration is a source of leftist boats, when they have that as a goal and they don't state it, either explicitly or implicitly but they claim to be objective, but they are as driven as the used car salesman in getting you to try and do something that to me, is where
the real propaganda. Is the moment somebody says, okay. Here's my agenda. Here's my preference and I'm going to try and lead you to the truth because I believe my own agenda and that the truth are as, you know, mostly United that to me is not propaganda, because you are being open about what your goal is. You're transparent about your methodologies. And your goal is to try and Enlighten people rather than get them to do something that serves your interest without telling
them. That's your goal.