Propaganda is information that is not objective and is used primarily to influence an audience. Information that is biased or misleading used to promote a particular subject such as a political cause or point of view is how the world today rotates.
Whether one acknowledges it or not there is propaganda all around us, in fact there are 50 types of propaganda. The types are ad hominem, ad nauseam, appeal to authority, appeal to fear, appeal to prejudice, bandwagon, beautiful people, black and white, classical conditioning, cognitive dissonance, common man, cult of personality, demonizing the enemy, dictat, disinformation, door in the face, euphoria, fear, uncertainty, doubt, flag waving, foot in the door, glittering generalities, half-truth, …show more content…
It existed in WW1 to today in your everyday coffee shop. Propaganda can be good because it can give awareness to a cause to the public, but depending on the creators point of view propaganda can also be bad. Examples of bad propaganda is in North Korea despite all the hardships the citizens endure and concentration camps, Kim Jong-un promotes to his people that North Korea is the best and most powerful country in the world. His dictatorship allows him to have access to people's television, news and lives. He is able to only promote what he wants his people to see and if there are others who rebel or say otherwise he locks them up in concentration camps from the public. Propaganda is all about control to the public, it just depends whose hands that control is in. Propaganda could easily help a cause like avoiding throwing trash into our oceans. People believe that by avoiding throwing waste into the ocean we can avoid danger to marine life, depleted oxygen in the water, and waste getting into our drinking water. This type of propaganda is for a good cause because we have control and say what we can do to help our environment. However propaganda was also the cause for the death of thousands of Jews during WW11. In Germany, Hitler used the Jews as scapegoats to why Germany had lost in WW1. Because of Germany's loss, their economy plummeted and the people faced a a depression. This depression left people desperate and instead of the government to be blamed for the peoples suffering, they turned their finger and said it was all other minorities fault. People believed this nonsense because they were desperate and they needed a way and a will to rebuild their economy. Because propaganda is a double edged sword is could be either helpful or destructive depending whos hands hold the
Whether one acknowledges it or not there is propaganda all around us, in fact there are 50 types of propaganda. The types are ad hominem, ad nauseam, appeal to authority, appeal to fear, appeal to prejudice, bandwagon, beautiful people, black and white, classical conditioning, cognitive dissonance, common man, cult of personality, demonizing the enemy, dictat, disinformation, door in the face, euphoria, fear, uncertainty, doubt, flag waving, foot in the door, glittering generalities, half-truth, …show more content…
It existed in WW1 to today in your everyday coffee shop. Propaganda can be good because it can give awareness to a cause to the public, but depending on the creators point of view propaganda can also be bad. Examples of bad propaganda is in North Korea despite all the hardships the citizens endure and concentration camps, Kim Jong-un promotes to his people that North Korea is the best and most powerful country in the world. His dictatorship allows him to have access to people's television, news and lives. He is able to only promote what he wants his people to see and if there are others who rebel or say otherwise he locks them up in concentration camps from the public. Propaganda is all about control to the public, it just depends whose hands that control is in. Propaganda could easily help a cause like avoiding throwing trash into our oceans. People believe that by avoiding throwing waste into the ocean we can avoid danger to marine life, depleted oxygen in the water, and waste getting into our drinking water. This type of propaganda is for a good cause because we have control and say what we can do to help our environment. However propaganda was also the cause for the death of thousands of Jews during WW11. In Germany, Hitler used the Jews as scapegoats to why Germany had lost in WW1. Because of Germany's loss, their economy plummeted and the people faced a a depression. This depression left people desperate and instead of the government to be blamed for the peoples suffering, they turned their finger and said it was all other minorities fault. People believed this nonsense because they were desperate and they needed a way and a will to rebuild their economy. Because propaganda is a double edged sword is could be either helpful or destructive depending whos hands hold the