University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is offering journalism students the chance to study how the President deals with the media in a course called "Trump-aganda."
The eight-week course "Trump-aganda:
The war on facts, press and democracy" will look into Donald Trump’s "disinformation campaign" and his attacks on the mainstream media, examining what the implications are for American democracy and a free press.
During the course, students will be discussing how during his 2016 election campaign, Trump used "the most common propaganda device" of name-calling against his opponents in order to "define, degrade, discredit and destroy" them, as well as his constant use of the term "fake news" and describing journalists as the "enemies of the people," according to the university’s course description.
"Previous American administrations have had a contentious relationship with the news media, but the Trump administration’s conflict with the press is different in strategies and tactics, challenging Americans’ tendency to think of propaganda as something that doesn’t happen in democratic societies," the description added.
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