The comment you’re replying to just used this issue as an example from a book to emphasize a point on propaganda framing public discourse, not necessarily arguing that the framing of this particular issue was in any way incorrect.
Sometimes (usually) propaganda is necessary to get the general public to reach the correct conclusions and ask the right questions, so whether the framing of this issue was right or wrong isn’t necessarily being contested as unethical or wrong, merely highlighted as a well known case study of this method of propaganda.
Sometimes (usually) propaganda is necessary to get the general public to reach the correct conclusions and ask the right questions, so whether the framing of this issue was right or wrong isn’t necessarily being contested as unethical or wrong, merely highlighted as a well known case study of this method of propaganda.