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views on these subjects. Challenging another person’s political or religious beliefs, even if attempted
civilly, is often not possible as people are easily offended. This visceral emotional response is
precisely what the propagandists were tapping into as they built associations between the Moon
landing, national pride, and religious belief. Unconsciously, the masses were being conditioned to
view an attack on the Moon landings as an attack on the nation, or even an attack on their religious
beliefs. This created an immense obstacle to a free and open discussion of the Apollo space program
by naysayers and skeptics.

It is certainly within the realm of possibility for men who control the media, finance, and the
government, to set before the populace a cleverly carried out illusion and convince them it was real.
The more difficult task is to stand against popular opinion and attempt to lead people to truth when
they have an emotional attachment to their beliefs.

The volume of propaganda used to sell the lunar landing hoax to the people was nothing short of
astonishing. Every major paper in America, and around the world, carried front page reports on the
successful Moon landing in their July 21, 1969 editions.

In addition to this, all of the major television and radio networks devoted special programming to
this event.

Walter Cronkite Covering the Lunar Expedition

Magazines carried articles on the Moon landings. Inside the magazines were advertisements from
trusted corporate brand names which referenced the Moon landings. Since the transnational
corporations owned these media channels, the cost to them to run their stories was negligible. Indeed,
by publishing reports on an event that was as enthusiastically received by the general public, sales
of print media increased and more people tuned into television and radio to hear about these