Letter: Don’t fall into propaganda trap

Fake news.

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” — Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels.

I read from Tuesday’s opinion page that even Anders Gyllenhaal, senior editor at McClatchy, is concerned about “Trusting what you read.”

This story was originally published December 13, 2017 at 4:57 PM with the headline "Letter: Don’t fall into propaganda trap."