{"id":4324,"date":"2020-11-13T09:09:27","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T14:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=4324"},"modified":"2020-11-13T09:09:29","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T14:09:29","slug":"sad-a-brief-history-of-white-house-propaganda-from-teddy-roosevelt-to-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/sad-a-brief-history-of-white-house-propaganda-from-teddy-roosevelt-to-donald-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Sad! A brief history of White House propaganda from Teddy Roosevelt to Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, our leaders have had the duty to draw on the government\u2019s public health expertise and vast trove of data on COVID-19 to both explain the threat and teach us practices to diminish the damage it can cause. Instead, President Donald Trump downplayed the virus,\u00a0likening it<\/a>\u00a0to seasonal influenza and saying it would go away by Easter. He sent\u00a0conflicting messages<\/a>\u00a0about the value of shutdowns,\u00a0social distancing<\/a>, and\u00a0masks<\/a>. He used White House pandemic briefings to show videos that were blatant advertisements for his presidential campaign…. (Read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, our leaders have had the duty to draw on the government\u2019s public health expertise and vast trove of data on COVID-19 to both explain the threat and teach us practices to diminish the damage it can cause. Instead, President Donald Trump downplayed the virus,\u00a0likening it\u00a0to seasonal influenza and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[12],"tags":[228],"class_list":["post-4324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-communications-and-or-propaganda","tag-bulletin-of-atomic-scientists"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-17K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4326,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4324\/revisions\/4326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}