50 Types of Propaganda

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[Jagermonster]

Know when you are being manipulated by the media!

I've posted this list to help sharpen the analytical skills of Freepers. When you know what techniques are being used on you, you are better equipped to resist them, if necessary.

What propaganda techniques have you seen used in the articles posted here today?



(I know...I'm a nerd.)

[aquila48]

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[Jagermonster]

I thought to post this when I read this article - The family that could save Europe http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3754398/posts, which seems to be a love letter to the Habsburgs.

I saw examples of at least Bandwagon, Beautiful People, Cult of Personality, Flag Waving, Join the Crowd, and Selective Truth.

Also an interesting article.

[sparklite2]

Adjectives are culprits.

Read a few paragraphs of some pundit’s column, or anything else, for that matter.

Now read those same few paragraphs again, only this time skip all the adjectives. Is the meaning or tone of the reading any different the second time? The degree of difference is the degree to which the author is manipulating you.

[Dad was my hero]

Numbers 1 through 8 have been used constantly with global warming, and an add in with others scattered throughout. Obviously someone’s propagandizing.

[CrazyIvan]

Great article, but how did they omit “Begging the Question”?

[Responsibility2nd]

50 Types of Propaganda

1. CNN
2. New York Times
3. Washington Post
4. MSNBC
5. etc. etc. etc.

[FreeReign]

Good list, thanks.

[Kommodor]

“(I know...I’m a nerd.)”

But do you have a nize hat?

Ottervise, it vas a bad plan.

[Jagermonster]

Great article, but how did they omit “Begging the Question”?

I suppose that it is not an exhaustive list.

For reference, Begging the question, sometimes known by its Latin name petitio principii (meaning assuming the initial point), is a logical fallacy in which the writer or speaker assumes the statement under examination to be true. In other words, begging the question involves using a premise to support itself.

For example, 'Opium puts you to sleep because it is a soporific.'

I leave it to the Freeperverse to continue to add to the list.

[Jagermonster]

Any plan vere hyu lose hyu hat iz a bad plan.

Hy do have a nize hat.



(As I said . . . I'm a nerd.)

[wbarmy]

But do you have a nize hat?

Girl, that remark was genius!

[jmacusa]

And don’t forget out right physical violence. The Left is always ready to do that.

[ptsal]

bkmk propaganda list

[davius]

It’s ironic that Obama employed #8 virtually every time he spoke. I had named it False Dichotomy.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I’ve been watching some TV shows from the early 1960s. THRILLER, THE OUTER LIMITS, and such. No anti-American politics, no propaganda. Just good entertainment.

The propaganda and influence of such shows on the public really began just after Bobby Kennedy was murdered in 1968.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

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[William Tell]

I had a tenth grade teacher who taught us about propaganda. I think I read Vance Packards "The Hidden Persuaders" back then.

His book was an explanation of how Madison Avenue used various techniques to get people to buy things. Great book and a great teacher.

[sparklite2]

I saw that book. The radical looking guy who had it showed me some fashion magazine ads that were phallic as hell. Aubrey Beardsley could have drawn them. I denied seeing anything, of course.

[CrazyIvan]

“I saw that book. The radical looking guy who had it showed me some fashion magazine ads that were phallic”

Remember George Carlin’s routine about subliminal sex in adds? The final scene in the “Should a gentleman offer a lady a Tiporillo? add is a train going into a tunnel. You don’t have to be Felini to figure that one out!”