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. . . I'm reminded of the British journalist from WW2 stationed in Germany--I forget his name at the moment. He had access to London papers, American papers, news sources from all over the place, due to his profession and outsider status, and he was very well aware of the wider scope of information. Yet he noted later that though he knew better than the average German citizen, he said he was shocked to find how much doubt the constant drip of Nazi propaganda created in him. He would later write about the effectiveness of constant messaging, even on those who knew they were being gaslit. . . .
I think you're thinking of William L. Shirer, an American correspondent for CBS radio. He was there at the start of the war (1 Sep 1939, over 2 years before we entered the war) and, as German censorship was getting tighter and tighter, he left in Dec 1940. He wrote about the effects of German propaganda, just as you described. He published
Berlin Diary in 1941 and
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich in 1960.
I posit something similar is often going on here. If you live in a space where LSU DBs are always getting drafted in the 1st round for years and making genuinely great plays every game, there can come a point where you're not consciously trying to tip the scales in their favor, but you fail to side against them in close calls that you'd probably ding another DB group for, because, after all, these guys are widely known to be great, they routinely make those perfect plays where they get there at exactly the right time to break up the pass. Or Alabama's OL is always so great without holding that it's harder to catch when they actually do it, because after all, those guys don't need to hold to play great. Insert whatever applies to UGA here, you get the idea.
The same phenomenon is on view in every NBA game. The stars get away with the actions that rookies get whistled for.
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