What are examples of propaganda today?

Answer 1

Watch CNN and watch the BBC and you'll see quite a different perspective in news. The US tends to keep news localized unless it affect US interests, BBC reports on interests across the world.

Watch movies from the 1940s that villified Germany, Italy and Japan.

Watch reruns of Hitler speeches villifying jews and non-arian people.

Watch the republicans villify the dems and the dems do the same to the republicans. SOmetimes lying just to get votes.

Answer 2

During the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf repeatedly claimed Iraqi forces were decisively winning every battle. Even up to the overthrow of the Iraqi government at Baghdad, he maintained that the United States would soon be defeated, in contradiction with all other media.The Iraqis, misled by his propaganda were shocked when instead Iraq was defeated.



In November 2005, various media outlets, including The Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times, alleged that the United States military had manipulated news reported in Iraqi media in an effort to cast a favorable light on its actions while demoralizing the insurgency.The Department of Defense has confirmed the existence of the program.
More recently, The New York Times published an article about how the Pentagon has started to use contractors with little experience in journalism or public relations to plant articles in the Iraqi press. These articles are usually written by US soldiers without attribution or are attributed to a non-existent organization called the "International Information Center." Planting propaganda stories in newspapers was done by both the Allies and Central Powers in the First World War and the Axis and Allies in the Second; this is the latest version of this technique.



In October 2006, one American media outlet allegedly propagandized the American public in a fashion reminiscent of the propaganda effect of the Tet Offensive. First, terrorists located in Iraq filmed their murder of American soldiers protecting Iraqi civilians. Then, CNN obtained the tapes from the terrorists and rebroadcast them in America mere weeks before national elections were to occur. The American President's press secretary said in response, "your network has shown pictures of snipers hitting Americans, which was used as a propaganda tool, so the fact is that -- it shows real sophistication on the part of these guys, because it creates the impression that Americans are sitting ducks, and that these guys are capable, when, in fact, they're dying in much greater numbers and suffering much greater damage." As a result of CNN's actions, The Pentagon has been asked to remove embedded CNN reporters: "C-N-N has now served as the publicist for an enemy propaganda film featuring the killing of an American soldier."


In the United States, private commercial propaganda is as important to notions of democracy as governmental propaganda. Commercial appeals to the people through advertising, which plays on irrational fantasies and impulses, are some of the most pervasive forms of propaganda in existence today.

Answer 3

Fox News....

Answer 4

al jazeera news

Answer 5

WMD