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University offering course on 'Trumpaganda'
The Hill ^ | 10/09/18 | AVERY ANAPOL

Posted on 10/09/2018 8:07:10 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is offering a course this semester focusing on what it calls “Trumpaganda.”

Students will examine Trump’s “war on facts, press and democracy,” according to the eight-week course title.

The class is offered through the university’s journalism program, according to the Daily Illini.

“As a candidate, Trump employed the most common propaganda device, name-calling, to define, degrade, discredit and destroy his primary opponents as well as the “fake” news media,” the course description reads.

Mira Sotirovic, associate professor in media, is teaching the class, and told the Daily Illini that students will look at President Trump’s strategies for dealing with the press to look how propaganda can exist in a democracy.

“Propaganda is effective only if it is concealed and camouflaged as something else, such as news, advertisements or PR releases, and it is critical to learn how to detect propaganda and recognize propagandistic features of any communication, including presidential,” Sotirovic told the paper.

Sotirovic contributed a chapter to the scholarly text: “Communication in the Age of Trump.”


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: mirasotirovic; sotirovic; trump
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I'd have fun with this one.

Just attend and keep feeding the teacher increasingly bizarre ideas about Trump. Bring a hidden cam and film the lectures to be posted on the internet at the end of the semester.

It would be an easy A.

After I have my A, send the teacher a note telling him he was played and tell him to check out his videos on youtube.

1 posted on 10/09/2018 8:07:10 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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recognize propagandistic features of any communication, including presidential,” Sotirovic told the paper.

Sounds like this nutty professor is following her own advice. She is subjecting the students to propaganda they have to pay for. She is a true, dyed in the wool libtard. What--Odungo never used propaganda? That's all he was about! This idiot sounds like Trump was the only "evil president" to ever use propaganda. And let me tell you something--I think he uses far less of it than the despicable traitor Odungo, or his predecessor Bush, whose perfidy is only now becoming so apparent. Yet another university we sadly have to write off, for being more of a libtard indoctrination center rather than an actual center of learning.

2 posted on 10/09/2018 8:12:09 PM PDT by EinNYC
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What a load right out of the Democrat playbook, always accuse your opponent of the exact same thing you are doing. Distraction and deflection.


3 posted on 10/09/2018 8:14:32 PM PDT by W. (Boom!)
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I must have missed their course on Obama Bull-Scat and Idiotic Statements.


4 posted on 10/09/2018 8:14:46 PM PDT by Iron Munro (If Illegals Voted Republican 66 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall !")
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I used to write for the DI. This is crap.


5 posted on 10/09/2018 8:17:52 PM PDT by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election!)
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They are teaching Trumpaganda? Well these leftist supercillious twits need a course in Gynoganda and The Woodshed.


6 posted on 10/09/2018 8:21:25 PM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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A class that is titled with name calling is about the evil in name calling.


7 posted on 10/09/2018 8:23:10 PM PDT by Raycpa
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Must be one of their univershitty courses. Send their students out into the world with “chitty” brains.


8 posted on 10/09/2018 8:28:35 PM PDT by adorno
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Excellent


9 posted on 10/09/2018 8:29:21 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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“As a candidate, Trump employed the most common propaganda device, name-calling, to define, degrade, discredit and destroy...probably won't be many deplorables taking that class.....
10 posted on 10/09/2018 8:35:58 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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What--Odungo never used propaganda?


To see propaganda, simply turn on NBC News. Mostly agenda driven pieces.
11 posted on 10/09/2018 8:43:28 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ("The MSM is the enemy of the American people"...Democrat Pat Caddell)
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““As a candidate, Trump employed the most common propaganda device, name-calling, to define, degrade, discredit and destroy...probably won’t be many deplorables taking that class..... “
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Ah, Intolerant in NJ. That is exactly why many deplorables should be taking the class! Give her quotes that are truly terrible and then apologize for giving her quotes that were actually given by (name any of any Democrat).

LOL Had a Sociology Professor who backed himself into a corner because I used this tactic in his class.


12 posted on 10/09/2018 8:46:03 PM PDT by Notthereyet (Notthereyet)
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13 posted on 10/09/2018 8:47:59 PM PDT by Dogbert41 (When the strong man, fully armed, guards his own dwelling, his goods are safe. -Luke 11:21)
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the name game
https://youtu.be/5MJLi5_dyn0


14 posted on 10/09/2018 8:55:09 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (alea iacta est)
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The very title of her course is propaganda....


15 posted on 10/09/2018 8:56:12 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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the university’s journalism program

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Total joke. Journalism has become a polemic.


16 posted on 10/09/2018 9:08:40 PM PDT by Starboard
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Students will examine Trump’s “war on facts, press and democracy,” according to the eight-week course title.

Do I have to say it yet again?

Someone needs to take this professor out behind the woodshed...

17 posted on 10/09/2018 9:10:40 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 $215.71 from 50% increase in 1.2183 yrs)
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I hope Mira Sotirovic gets her moronic ass kicked.


18 posted on 10/09/2018 9:13:15 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Washington is NOT a swamp.....It's a cesspool!)
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Take the course wearing a MAGA hat.


19 posted on 10/09/2018 9:15:07 PM PDT by The people have spoken (Proud member of Hillary's basket of deplorables)
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Hell, if this teacher is serious, then Mira should be able to do a whole Bachelor’s Degree (4 years) on the lies and Marxist Obamaganda of Barack, The One We’ve Been Waiting For.

John Kerry would only rate a single class while Al Gore would get at least a Junior College degree program in campaign lies and propaganda (Hey Al, the world is still here and turning while you are a fat, rich, white liberal fraud).

Alex, I’ll take the World for $1,000, please.


20 posted on 10/09/2018 10:04:43 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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