Difference between revisions of "Category:Propaganda"

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Pertaining to the deliberate and systematic distortion of information in the service of a cause. The modern trendy - and less pejorative term is "Spin" - as in "Spin-doctor"
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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.
  
Includes disinformation.
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* [http://www.unwelcomeguests.net/Category:Propaganda Long list of radio shows on propaganda]
  
[[Category:Miscellany]]
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[[Category:Social Control]]

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.