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Pertaining to the distortion of information in the service of a cause
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Pertaining to the deliberate and systematic distortion of information in the service of a cause. When carried out by businesses, the term is 'public relations', a term invented by Edward Bernays. Politics has birthed its own PC terms, "Spin", so a "propagandist" becomes a "spin-doctor"; an unlikely conjunction, one might think, considering the posiive connotations of the word doctor.
  
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* [http://www.unwelcomeguests.net/Category:Propaganda Long list of radio shows on propaganda]
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Latest revision as of 02:08, 23 November 2011

Pertaining to the deliberate and systematic distortion of information in the service of a cause. When carried out by businesses, the term is 'public relations', a term invented by Edward Bernays. Politics has birthed its own PC terms, "Spin", so a "propagandist" becomes a "spin-doctor"; an unlikely conjunction, one might think, considering the posiive connotations of the word doctor.