Propaganda is a concerted set of messages aimed to INFLUENCE the opinions or behavior of large numbers of people.
Instead of impartially providing information, propaganda in its most basic sense presents information in order to influence its audience.
The most effective propaganda is often completely truthful, but some propaganda presents facts SELECTIVELY to encourage a particular synthesis, or gives loaded messages in order to produce an emotional rather than rational response to the information presented.
The desired result is a change of the cognitive narrative of the subject in the target audience.
A message does not have to be untrue to qualify as propaganda.
The message in modern propaganda is often not blatantly untrue. But even if the message conveys only "true" information, it will generally contain partisan bias and fail to present a complete and balanced consideration of the issue.
Propaganda is the deliberate, systematic attempt to shape perceptions, manipulate cognitions, and direct behavior to achieve a response that furthers the desired intent of the propagandist.
– Garth S. Jowett and Victoria O'Donnell, Propaganda And Persuasion
Education is valuable, commendable, enlightening, instructive. Propaganda is insidious, dishonest, underhanded, misleading.
- Public relations pioneer Edward L. Bernays
The Opposition Parties should do more to inform the general public about propaganda. Don't let them fall prey to propagandists and become propaganda victims. List alternative political, economic and social online news websites.
wheelcamp, I absolutely agree with you. It is sad to hear that many are still so blinded to believe in the publication from the local papers, local media. It is imperative for the oppositions to start to do something to educate people on propaganda by the PAP.