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Why think about propaganda?

The Institute for Propaganda Analysis

Common techniques

Word games
-Name-calling
-Glittering generalities
-Euphemisms
False connections
-Transfer
-Testimonial
Special Appeals
-Plain Folks
-Bandwagon
-Fear

Logical fallacies
Bad Logic or propaganda?
Unwarranted extrapolation

Wartime propaganda
World War I
-The drift towards war
-The Committee on Public Information
-Demons, atrocities, and lies
-Post-war propaganda

Examples
America First Party
Anti-American propaganda from Afghanistan
Enron Corporation
International Workers Organization
John Birch Society
Maoist International Movement
Newt Gingrich
-Gingrich's glittering generalities
-Newt's name-calling words
Office of Strategic Information
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