Re:Vintage “Soviet Santa” Postcards Were Propaganda for the ...
by StavrosK on Saturday January 12, 2019 @10:43AM
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Is it propaganda because of who pays for it? If I had paid to produce and distribute the leaflet that public health clinics do, would that be not-propaganda just because it's not state-produced?
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Re:Vintage “Soviet Santa” Postcards Were Propaganda for the ...
by cat199 on Saturday January 12, 2019 @12:31PM
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Let's see what the dictionary has to say:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/propaganda
1 capitalized : a congregation of the Roman curia having jurisdiction over missionary territories and related institutions
2 : the spreading of ideas, information, or rumor for the purpose of helping or injuring an institution, a cause, or a person
3 : ideas, facts, or allegations spread deliberately to further one's cause or to damage an opposing cause also : a public action having such an effect
so.. quite a few things are propaganda.
it's not really so scary a term, and so being not so scary, we can see it more clearly and not be afraid of labeling it.
the question is more "is this good propaganda or bad propganda?"
Re:Vintage “Soviet Santa” Postcards Were Propaganda for the ...
by StavrosK on Saturday January 12, 2019 @01:55PM
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It's neither. It's space-agency marketing.
Re:Vintage “Soviet Santa” Postcards Were Propaganda for the ...
by cat199 on Monday January 14, 2019 @07:44PM
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soo, you're saying it's "the spreading of ideas, information, or rumor for the purpose of helping an institution"?