A narrative is a specific type of text or discourse that supports some kind of narration. The narratives are very much present in every kind of text. Be it made of words, or moving images. News Media broadcasts have a narrative, politicians have narratives, and even our favorite movies do, as well. While in movies, and books the narrative is, more often than not, safe, when it comes to political narratives, especially when amalgamated with news media corporations, having a narrative is pretty dangerous.
The latter is true, as when they have an agenda that they want to push, news media corporations and governments won’t stop for anything until their agenda is pushed forward. And that happens, via narratives, and talking points.
Everything that opposes the agenda (their goal), the narrative could easily deem redundant or punish-worthy. Thus the narrative that a specific person is bad (therefore one mustn’t even listen to them) is a powerful supporting tool for the agenda of those, who want to deem this person or that – untrustworthy.
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