Propaganda: extraits

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Submitted by admin on 1 September, 2004 - 11:08. Information Age
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda

Propaganda is a mighty weapon in war

dehumanize the enemy and to create hatred against a supposed enemy
false image in the mind

using special words, special avoidance of words or by saying that the enemy is responsible for certain things he never did
cause of their nation is just
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false information meant to reassure people who already believe
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White propaganda comes from an openly identified source. Black propaganda pretends to be from a friendly source, but is actually from an adversary. Gray propaganda pretends to be from a neutral source, but comes from an adversary.
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few people actually double-check what they learn at school, such disinformation will be repeated by journalists as well as parents, thus reinforcing the idea that the disinformation item is really a "well-known fact", even though no one repeating the myth is able to point to a definite authoritative source or facts. The disinformation is then recycled in the media and in the educational system, without the need for direct governmental intervention on the media.
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propaganda meant "things to be propagated"
The modern political sense dates from World War I, and was not originally pejorative

journalist Walter Lippman and psychologist Edward Bernays

The current public relations industry is a direct outgrowth of Lippman and Bernays' work and is still used extensively by the United States government.

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Techniques of propaganda generation
information dissemination strategies only become propaganda strategies when coupled with propagandistic messages


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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1373/is_8_49/ai_55481498

If you examine propaganda's most secret causes, you will come to different
conclusions: then there will be no more doubting that the propagandist must
be the man with the greatest knowledge of souls. I cannot convince a single
person of the necessity of something unless I get to know the soul of that
person, unless I understand how to pluck the string in the harp of his soul
that must be made to sound.