Mon Oct 11, 2021 – 6:35 am EDT
(Children’s Health Defense) – “Propaganda in favor of action dictated by the impulses that are below self-interest offers false, garbled or incomplete evidence, avoids logical argument and seeks to influence its victims by the mere repetition of catchwords, by the furious denunciation of foreign or domestic scapegoats, and by cunningly associating the lowest passions with the highest ideals…” — Aldous Huxley
Journalists Maria Ressa of the Philippines and Dmitri A. Muratov of Russia will be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their ongoing work in the face of those who would end freedom of expression.
In the announcement of the prize, the committee declared that a free press was “a precondition for democracy and lasting peace.”
It is painless to look at authoritarian regimes from afar and identify with brave individuals who don’t bend to the hostile and demeaning pressure from government and state-supportive media.
However, as they often do, the Nobel Committee is sending another message around the world with this year’s award.
Intolerance of ideas that don’t conform with government directives, mimicked by a compliant media, is not solely the domain of repressive regimes or fascist dictatorships. There
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