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Quotes About Propaganda

Government as part of plan has put both the brothers Jawan (Soldiers) and Kisan (Farmers) against each other to fight amongst themselves in the Farmers protest and media continue to present distorted image to fool public
~ Raneshwar Sing Kishan
He who used to create fake news is talking on Anti-Hindus topic and the fools are applauding him.
~ Raneshwar Sing Kishan
Mainstream media can do anything for TRP and spreading fake news by creating hashtag trend on social media handles and showing numerous supporters to it is nothing new for them.
~ Raneshwar Sing Kishan
framing' - the cunning technique of dumbing down complex, controversial issues and policies by using powerful, evocative, emotive catchphrases and images in order to prejudice and undermine any potential challenge to those polices.
~ Raymond Khoury
People do not like negative campaigns.
~ Sushma Swaraj
I think the best thing in cases of censorship or things like this is to get as much media as possible.
~ Kathy Acker
Just as the 99% of Soviet citizens who supported the Soviet regime in 1985 was no indication of what the people inside the USSR really thought, the army of true believers that we think we see in the Arab world is an illusion.
~ Natan Sharansky
Governments are supposed to lie to their citizens.
~ Noam Chomsky
It is not surprising, then, that in the decade since Oslo began, Arafat used all the resources placed at his disposal to fan the flames of hatred against Israel.
~ Natan Sharansky
Their constant yelping about a free press means, with a few honorable exceptions, freedom to peddle scandal, crime, sex, sensationalism, hate, innuendo, and the political and financial uses of propaganda. A newspaper is a business out to make money through advertising revenue. That is predicated on its circulation and you know what the circulation depends on.
~ Raymond Chandler
Their constant yelping about a free press means, with a few honorable exceptions, freedom to peddle scandal, crime, sex, sensationalism, hate, innuendo, and the political and financial uses of propaganda.
~ Raymond Chandler
Language is power. When you turn "torture" into "enhanced interrogation," or murdered children into "collateral damage," you break the power of language to convey meaning, to make us see, feel, and care. But it works both ways. You can use the power of words to bury meaning or to excavate it.
~ Rebecca Solnit
Bernays approached the age of mass media like a scientist in search of general principles, which he recorded in articles and books: Crystallizing Public Opinion, Propaganda, The Engineering of Consent.
~ Rich Cohen
Second: the people can be made to behave as you want them to behave via the subconscious of the public mind—no one else believed such a thing existed—which can be directed with symbols and signs. "If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind," asked Bernays, "is it not possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing about it?
~ Rich Cohen
Bernays set various goals: convince the American people of the Communist presence in Guatemala; convince members of Congress the issue is a winner; convince the CIA, which can actually do something on the ground, it's time to act. Bernays wouldn't make the world better for bananas, he would make the world better for American politicians, who would make the world better for the CIA, which would make the world better for bananas. Indirection.
~ Rich Cohen
There is still an active focus on media propaganda in the U.S. by Intelligence agencies to discredit conspiracy theories and solidify the official version of historical events;
~ Richard Belzer
Huey Long once said, "Fascism will come to America in the name of anti-fascism.
~ Richard Belzer
it was impossible to convey the complexities of an economic reform programme when voters only understood war-cries or catchphrases. He was more effective at talking sense into people, and in improving their comprehension
~ Richard Davenport-Hines
Voltaire got it right long ago: 'Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.' So did Bertrand Russell: 'Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.
~ Richard Dawkins
Voltaire got it right long ago: 'Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
~ Richard Dawkins
All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to.
~ Richard J. Evans
The next day, 25 February 1945, Goebbels warned, in an article in The Reich, that, if Germany surrendered, Stalin would immediately occupy south-eastern Europe, and 'an iron curtain would immediately fall on this huge territory, together with the vastness of the Soviet Union, and nations would be slaughtered behind it'.
~ Richard J. Evans
Served up through the id-feeding Technicolor TV drip that passed for national news coverage, he was just new dosage in a regime already 150 years screen-ingrained.
~ Richard K. Morgan
Anyway, it's a crock of shit. Simple-minded post-quranic desert Islam propaganda. No one in the modern Muslim world with two brain cells to rub together believes that shit any more. And who wants a fucking virgin anyway? You got to teach them every fucking thing. Like having sex with a fucking shop mannequin with its motion circuits shot up.
~ Richard K. Morgan