Buchanan's '92 republican national conventions speech?

Question

I have an assignment to write a 3-5 page essay explaining how propaganda was used in Buchanan's speech. I have read it and have some ideas but not enough to make the essay. can anyone help me by telling me what they thought of the speech and how propaganda was used to convince his audience.

Answer 1

"propaganda?" is your assignment?

How liberal of a definition of propaganda are you working with, and does your instructor understand the difference between rhetoric and propaganda. It is a shame that people so willfully use loaded words as synonyms when they are not.

I heard and read the speech, as I analyzed it for my Speech class at the Univ. of Minn. for my 3000 public speaking class. I would turn the assignment on its head, expose the empty rhetoric, attack the qualifier of propaganda from the instructor as politically biased, and instead turn the paper as an indictment on the chilling effect loaded words have on public discourse.