PROPAGANDA

Propaganda is a manner in which people distort the truth by manipulating and persuading many people i.e. indoctrination on a mass scale. This is a one sided view only, this means that propagandists are bias. The view could be a social, economical, political, religious or cultural affair. The tools of propaganda are advertising, television, radio, blogspots, print media, newspapers; these are all means of communication. These can be visual or audio visual or written. The devices are: irony, indoctrination, exaggeration, hyperbole and sensationalism. The government uses propaganda to sway people into believing them and thus people’s perceptions and mindsets are changed and this leads to them being brainwashed. A person once said, "Propaganda is as blatant as swastika or as subtle as a joke."[126 words]