Institutionalized Lying And Propagada

Institutionalized lying and propaganda are branches of public relations that manipulate people's attitude toward events. Pro-war propaganda and anti-war propaganda are some of the largest forms of this manipulation. However, it comes up in a multitude of different issues in our society. This propaganda is built up using methods of media manipulation, misdirection, loaded vocabulary, and staged events. There has always been a natural tension between the secrecy of the government and the right of the governed to be well-informed. According to British Scholar, F.M. Cornford, "Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in very nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies." (http://www.sourcewatch.org/wiki.phtml?title=War_propaganda)
    Propaganda, used the correct way, can have huge effects on society; it is used by the government and media to shape the public's opinions, thoughts, and beliefs. Therefore, it is important that we have some understanding of propaganda in order to interpret events with any degree of clarity (http://www.khilafah.com/home/category.php?documentID=7171&tagID=1). Some reasons why states use propaganda is to emphasize misleading statistics to present a better picture of the economy in order to create a 'feel good' factor among the public. Propaganda is also used to exaggerate or invent negative aspects of potentially threatening political groups in order to discredit them in the eyes of the public. Another use of propaganda
 is to selectively present facts at times of war to give a misleading impression of the war's progress. None-the-less, in each of these cases the state tries to manipulate public opinion to be favorable to interests of the ruling party (http://www.khilafah.com ...
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