The republicans hate NPR because they cannot influence it. They have wanted to defund it, forever.
Propaganda 1.0 was Fox News (and later CNN, MSNBC). A lot of "news" shows are really just opinion factories where the basic "facts" are in dispute. Now we are in a state of propaganda 2.0 where foreign interests have figured out how to influence people on Facebook.
I don't think this is possible to actually stop. This is the continued evolution from the Op-Ed where people want to be told what to think and how to vote.
Edit: And they won't trust true experts such as academics because they "obviously" have a liberal bias "by definition".
Propaganda 1.0 was Fox News (and later CNN, MSNBC). A lot of "news" shows are really just opinion factories where the basic "facts" are in dispute. Now we are in a state of propaganda 2.0 where foreign interests have figured out how to influence people on Facebook.
I don't think this is possible to actually stop. This is the continued evolution from the Op-Ed where people want to be told what to think and how to vote.
Edit: And they won't trust true experts such as academics because they "obviously" have a liberal bias "by definition".