Most people don't vote. Even those who do must often rely on shorthand snippets of information from electronic media. Information, reduced to headlines capable of quick absorption, is edited, digested, and repeated. Sometimes it is little more than a series of slogans. In such a world, the principles of advertising are more powerful than those of education.
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He is often at the mercy of the soundbite. Soundbites are composed of language, often catchy language. The language is dictated by the newsmakers, chiefly the government itself. Other examples abound. Murder, violence, and intimidation inflicted upon Christian minorities in countries like Sudan, Egypt, and Albania aren't mentioned at all.