Another thread on the concept of propaganda

[Kritish]

You got that from wikipedia, didn't you?

Close but no cigar, dictionary.com

 

[Superhobo]

Cigarettes being linked to cancer isn't propaganda it's a simple warning. The Surgeon General doesn't include a little pamphlet about the evils of tobacco in each pack, if he did that would count as propaganda.

It can be constituted as propaganda, if we go by the more general term and definition. You seem to be only familiar with one type of propaganda. Weird.

 

[Kritish]

It can be constituted as propaganda, if we go by the more general term and definition. You seem to be only familiar with one type of propaganda. Weird.

I'm just going by the strictest definition, you could label everything as propaganda if you wanted to.

 

[Superhobo]

I'm just going by the strictest definition, you could label everything as propaganda if you wanted to.

This is true. I mean, that's one of the problems I have with the term propaganda in the broad sense. But, yeah. Generally, I come from where you're coming from, but I like to read all the view points.

Some good stuff to read is:

http://www.historians.org/projects/GIRoundtable/Propaganda/Propaganda_TOC.htm

 

[bullets]

i view propaganda as negative.

 

[Kritish]

This is true. I mean, that's one of the problems I have with the term propaganda in the broad sense. But, yeah. Generally, I come from where you're coming from, but I like to read all the view points.

I'm just saying, there's a big difference between the Surgeon General's warning on a pack of cigarettes and this...

 

[Superhobo]

i view propaganda as negative.

You know, in every thread I've encountered you, your interjections never actually add anything of substance or that hasn't been said before.

 

[Superhobo]

I'm just saying, there's a big difference between the Surgeon General's warning on a pack of cigarettes and this...

That image is teh classic. I'm using that for something, somehow. But I don't know what. Yet.

 

[Kritish]

That image is teh classic. I'm using that for something, somehow. But I don't know what. Yet.

I've got a print of that poster in my office.

 

[Superhobo]

I've got a print of that poster in my office.

Lucky.

Anybody ever say anything about it?

 

[Kritish]

Lucky.

Anybody ever say anything about it?

Most people get a good laugh out of it, but it makes a few lazy employees uncomfortable. t:

 

[Superhobo]

Most people get a good laugh out of it, but it makes a few lazy employees uncomfortable. t:

You should dress up one day in uniform to match, and just let the compliments sllllliiiiiddddeee right in.

 

[Kritish]

You should dress up one day in uniform to match, and just let the compliments sllllliiiiiddddeee right in.

That would be awesome.

 

[Superhobo]

That would be awesome.

Do it. Do it.




Do it.

 

[bullets]

You know, in every thread I've encountered you, your interjections never actually add anything of substance or that hasn't been said before.

you asked for an opinion and i gave you one. what more has to be said

 

[Superhobo]

you asked for an opinion and i gave you one. what more has to be said

"there is information and there is propaganda.
Today 03:37 AM"

"propaganda is deception."

"whether good or bad it is ultimately deception."


That's what I mean.

 

[EdRyder]

Well, then it comes down to using common sense, and deciding what is right and what is wrong. It's become decidedly harder to use propaganda now, in recent times, because people aren't the drones they were in the thirties, forties, and fifties.

I see no decline in its use, nor a decline in the "Drones" who buy the BS thats being shoveled.

Point-Recent tv spots shown on CNN depict deceased soldiers wives who use the word "surrender" in regards to withdrawing from Iraq

 

[bullets]

you cant decipher that .