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Everything is propaganda if it changes your view of something
I knew it, glasses are propaganda
Doesn't even need to change your mind.
Pretty much spot on, though that is the exact point of these kinds of shows.
It was part of a wave of shows launched to counter the media perception of incompetence in law enforcement/prosecution. They pushed a bunch of dangerously misleading (or even outright fake) claims such as the reliability and accuracy of forensic evidence which has been later used in actual court cases to imprison innocent people.
As always, Citations needed has done a brilliant job on this kind of stuff that's worth a listen.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3Gmg1b4MSELodxHnHTQoAC
If people are quoting tv as facts in the court room that's a different level of anti science that I'm not prepared to accept.
How dumb can a society be that people with college degree and doing something for a living can't sort out fact from fiction? And I'm not talking one lawyer, I'm talking both sides of the bench AND judge.
That's too much of a generalization. Propaganda is far more specific.