University of Illinois-Champaign Offers New ‘Trumpaganda’ Course
“Trumpaganda: The war on facts, press, and democracy”
Remember all the negative college courses about Obama? Neither does anyone else.
Campus Reform reports:
University of Illinois defends new ‘Trumpaganda’ course
The University of Illinois- Champaign is offering a new course which examines U.S. propaganda in the Trump era and its effect on democracy and free press.
“Trumpaganda: The war on facts, press, and democracy” is a new journalism course being offered at the University of Illinois- Champaign later this month to analyze President Donald Trump’s, “disinformation campaign,” the ways in which he uses different methods of propaganda to defeat his “opponents,” and, its “implications for American democracy and a free press.”
The course is specifically centered around the President’s, “running war” with his media enemies, which he calls “fake news,” and how he uses textbook devices for propaganda that, “dominate,” his tweets, press conferences, and public statements.
The course also seeks to challenge students to question their assumption that propaganda is an uncommon practice in democratic societies.
According to her faculty profile, Mira Sotirovic, the professor teaching the course, has written extensively on the president’s rhetorical methods in the past. She also has an entire tab on her site devoted to her research on propaganda.
The school’s student newspaper, The Daily Illini, reached out to the university’s Journalism Department head, Stephanie Craft, for comment. Craft stated, “This particular course is the first of what we hope will be a series of what we’re thinking as pop-up courses, where we’re trying to identify things that are very in the news and build an eight-week course around it that would be of interest to the broader University community, not just journalism majors.”
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My alma mater is showing its ignorance. Fake news is not propaganda, but rather real. We have seen it daily since the 1970’s. It is only now that Trump talks about it that its effect has become clear.