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RedSoxFan3
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posted January 12, 2004 10:36 PM |
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How about anti-smoking ad campaigns? (Though not those freakin' "Truth" commercials they just make me want to get me a pack and light up).
Those Truth commercials sometimes make no sense. I remember this one that said, "Death kills 5 out of 5 dead smokers." Who wrote that? It makes absolutely no sense.
Actually death would have killed anyone who is dead therefore this is a deceiving line used to make people afraid of smoking. Hence propaganda. You could say anything in that line.
"Death kills 5 out of 5 dead people who were perfectly healthy before they died."
It's all the same. It's designed to be worded to make you think that smoking kills everyone who uses it when in fact it only says something that is true for everyone who is dead.
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posted January 13, 2004 03:38 AM |
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It could be good, it could be evil. What it comes down to is what kind of trick are they trying to use: get your attention and obedience through tricky psychological traps, or simply provide some inspiration or alert you of an issue. The first one is far more commonly used. For instance, when the president was giving us all of that BS about terrorism when he in fact wanted his damn oil - that was a simple trick that used the tragic events of september 11 for evil purposes of the government (and some people actually bought it. Proves my hypothesis that we are all idiots.) This is also what the USSR was doing when they were portraying all the Americans as evil capitalists who only cared about money (after visiting the US I found out that it was slightly more accurate than I expected, and yet the exaggeration is too bold.) On the other hand, during WWII posters appeared with suffering people and asked people to help their countries in any way they could to save Europe. This was justified propaganda. People outside of Europe did not know the evil of the Nazis and they needed some inspiration to rise and fight against them. Campaigns agains smoking, drinking and violence are also valid forms of propaganda (although I would only consider them propaganda if they are government issued, and these are quite rare).
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doomnezeu
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posted January 13, 2004 09:05 AM |
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There is no such thing as good or bad propaganda. Let's just say it's neutral, and that the one behind it (usually a mean, despotic dictator who wants to take over the world) gives it a certain adjective.
A good propaganda involves something like save the rainforest, or maybe stop pollution. Or so I think...
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