Bill - This is my quick recollection of 40 years ago..
My memory has got much worse in the last decade..

Brit Higher Ed was divided into traditional errmmm.. 'conservative' Universities..
and modern Polytechnics, which were establishing their place in the pecking order..

Snobby Unis looked down on plebby Polys..

The Polys were at the forefront of Communications and Media Studies degrees,
which appealed to my generation of radical politicised young musicians, artists, wannabe film makers, etc..

This was at the time of the popular Anti N@zi and Rock Against Racism
British youth movements..

The Polys and Unis were at the same time informing and responding to this shift in British culture..

Though most Unis still seemed to be clinging onto their traditional elitist foundations..

My degree at Bristol Poly - a very radical progressive British City,
was mainly devised by lecturers who had been students during the late 1960s
counter culture and radical student protests..

Marxists, Feminists, Anarchists, etc.. middle class radicals..
Some of those lecturers were inspiring, others just intolerant nasty human beings..

That's a potted gist back story..

What I got out of Moral Philosophy was the concepts of "Moral Education" and "Moral Maturity".
Which informed the rest of my life.
I can no longer remember the finer points of books I read,
or which philosopher said what;
but the principle stick with me..

What WE got from the communications, ideological, and media studies modules of the degree,
was the the essential need for critical analysis of the bias and motives
of the communicator,
which could be more far important to consider,
than the leading loaded words they used to manipulate those on the receiving end of their messages...

Recognise and identify the intentions of the communicator,
and the intended strategies of their messages
in influencing target audiences.
Then engage and challenge in order to counter them, and increase awareness of their motives..

[Key theorist names I remember were Gramsci and Althusser ..
but again, I barely remember a word of it now..]

I'm sure such trends must have also existed at the same time in areas of USA Highre education...???

I believe the skills we students acquired of critiquing the writers as much as the contents of their messages,
is a very positive approach when dealing with media propagandists,
and manipulative social media personalities...

A very GOOD thing, which conservatives are keen to stamp down on..

Please forgive my impaired memory, and hasty writing..
I'm preoccupied cooking a massive leftovers curry...

..and this is the first time I've tried to remember these things in a very long time...