propaganda?

Question

i have to find 4 examples of proaganda that i see for my english class but i dont have time to pay attention to that can anyone help me please

Answer 1

Example #1 - http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/iraq/

Answer 2

You know Kyle, this shouldn't be hard for you to do on your own but, since you ask...

1) Saddam's regime and Al-Qaeda were connected, hence Saddam is responsible for 9/11.

Needless to say, even Bush has acknowledged that this is false. However, this is one reason given for what has resulted in over 500,000 deaths.

2) America is a democracy.

There are two types of democracy, representative (elected officials) and participatory (most major decisions are taken by the general population through referendums). Of these, the US would nominally be a representative democracy. However, in important subjects such as universal health care, welfare, and universal education, Americans are hugely in favor of changes that the vast majority of elected officials ignore or sabotage. Also, referendums on subjects like the legalization of marijuana and abortion-bans are poorly written, skewed, and their content is never accurately presented to the public. Not only that but, when war looms, the government and the media must actively engage in virulent propaganda to convince most Americans that war is necessary.

3) The US has a free press.

This depends: are we talking about independent magazines like Liberty or the Nation or are we discussing the NYT, CNN, or Fox News? The US is known for having an un-free major media due to corporate meddling. After all, how can CNN, with sponsors like Boeing, speak honestly about a terrorist war in which Boeing has invested so much?

4) Nomenclature and clichés.

"Operation Iraqi Freedom", "Op. Enduring Freedom". "The Land of the Free", "We do it for Freedom", "Liberty Towers", etc. Every authoritarian regime in history, especially those of the 20th century, have been known for this. The British, in the buildup to World War One, began this sort of campaign where anybody who objected to the war or British foreign policy in general was either jailed, shunned, ridiculed, or exiled. Today, the US can't kill people for being against the war so they are instead called "Unamerican", are said to be "with the terrorists", are said to "hate freedom", etc, etc, etc, etc, etc. Doubt me? Watch Fox News, read The Washington Times and the Weekly Standard, and get back to me.

Places where you can find evidence to support these four points include, but are not limited to:

The Nation
The Guardian (UK)
The Jerusalem Post (Israel)
Al-Haaretz (Israel)
The Progressive
The Independent (UK)

Manufacturing Consent, by Noam Chomsky
Necessary Illusions, Ibid
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace, by Gore Vidal
1984, by George Orwell

Counterpunch.com

There are many, many other places and these sources are definitely of a leftist slant. However, remember that "leftist" and "right-wing" are other propagandistic terms that don't describe much of anything (see www.politicalcompass.org). In any case, you should be able to build convincing cases for these and other examples of propaganda by researching and studying some two hours a day instead of watching sports, playing video games, reading John Grisham novels, and shopping for useless crap like Air Jordans. I like all these things, too (especially Winning Eleven 10 for PS2) but there are infinitely more important matters to attend to in this world.

Oh, and should you use any of this, do quote me to your teacher, I'm sure she/he won't mind and if she/he does, tell them to grow up.

Answer 3

whatever any politician from any party or any country tells the world, is propaganda

Answer 4

You don't have time to do your homework? Maybe you ought to evaluate your priorities.