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Natalie Nougayrede: a victim of the propaganda system she doesn’t think exists
IAN SINCLAIR deconstructs the former executive editor of Le Monde’s assertion that propaganda is what ‘they’ — Russia and other official enemies — do, not something the West dirties its hands with
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Guardian columnist and leader writer Natalie Nougayrede wrote an op-ed last month examining propaganda in our supposed age of “lies and distortion.”
Focusing on “Russian propaganda” and “Russian meddling” in the West’s political systems, Nougayrede argued “citizens who live in an authoritarian, disinformation-filled environment deal daily with the reality of propaganda in ways we can’t fully experience, because we live outside of it.”
The former executive editor of Le Monde newspaper in France couldn’t be clearer. Propaganda is what “they” — Russia and other official enemies — do, not something the West dirties its hands with.
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