{"id":1389,"date":"2026-10-29T10:35:29","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T10:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meediaradar.ee\/?post_type=event&#038;p=1389"},"modified":"2026-10-29T11:20:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T11:20:55","slug":"interactive-lecture-how-politicians-compete-for-our-attention-populism-pr-and-manipulation-in-the-news-2","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/meediaradar.ee\/en\/events\/interactive-lecture-how-politicians-compete-for-our-attention-populism-pr-and-manipulation-in-the-news-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Interactive lecture: \u201cHow Politicians Compete for Our Attention: Populism, PR and Manipulation in the News\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Politics increasingly speaks to us in simple answers, strong emotions and bold promises. In this session, we\u2019ll look at where ordinary political communication ends and populism begins, how a single remark or conflict can become the top story, and why some political messages land better than others. Using examples from Estonia and elsewhere in Europe, we\u2019ll explore how to spot manipulation, separate what matters from political and media noise, and take a critical look at politicians\u2019 promises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Artur Aukon<\/strong> is a journalist and communications expert with 25 years of media experience. He has worked as an editor and presenter at ETV and ERR Raadio 4, covering Estonian politics and elections. He has also worked in political communication and has run training sessions on media literacy and information security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politics increasingly speaks to us in simple answers, strong emotions and bold promises. In this session, we\u2019ll look at where ordinary political communication ends and populism begins, how a single remark or conflict can become the top story, and why some political messages land better than others. Using examples from Estonia and elsewhere in Europe, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/meediaradar.ee\/en\/events\/interactive-lecture-how-politicians-compete-for-our-attention-populism-pr-and-manipulation-in-the-news-2\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1392,"template":"","event_category":[],"class_list":["post-1389","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meediaradar.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/1389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meediaradar.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meediaradar.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meediaradar.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meediaradar.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meediaradar.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_category?post=1389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}