Fake News and Irish Freedom

Ep 8: The Pen versus the Sword


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‘People are not capable of making up their minds. They can only decide between two sets of propagandists.’ That was the opinion of Ernest Blythe, a minister in the first government of the Irish Free State and a vocal proponent of censorship. In this final episode, we explore how years of censorship, violence and propaganda transformed the media.
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Fake News and Irish FreedomBy RTÉ Radio 1