April 11, 2019
Pro-Life Propaganda, or Just the Truth?
By Alicia Colon
Before I actually went to see the film Unplanned, I read the review in Variety by Owen Gleiberman, who called it effective propaganda (if you’re part of the choir). He writes: “Unplanned†isn’t a good movie, but it’s effective propaganda — or, at least, it is if you belong to the group it’s targeting: those who believe that abortion in America, though a legal right, is really a crime. It’s hard to imagine the movie drawing many viewers outside that self-selected demographic. “Unplanned†preaches to the pro-life choir, and it does so by making a case against abortion that’s absolutist and extreme, at certain points twisting “facts†into a narrative of conspiracy.
The author of this hit piece uses the word propaganda as a negative, which is how most people generally view it. Propaganda is bad, or is it? The definition for this word is more nuanced:
Propaganda-information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person,
Group, movement, institution, nation, etc.
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https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/04/prolife_propaganda_or_just_the_truth.html