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#Richard_Stengel, a former editor of TIME magazine , has said governments “have to” direct “propaganda” toward their own populations, and he is ‘not against it’.
These comments were made at a talk called Political Disruptions: Combating Disinformation and #Fake_News, organised by the highly influential Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) thinktank.
“Every country does it”
The news editor and former diplomat is also a regular analyst at US news site MSNBC.
He said:
Basically, every country creates their own narrative story and, you know, my old job at the State Department was what people used to joke as the ‘chief propagandist’ job. We haven’t talked about propaganda… I’m not against propaganda. Every country does it, and they have to do it to their own population, and I don’t necessarily think it’s that awful.