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Propaganda is the dissemination of information aimed at influencing the opinions or behaviors of large numbers of people. As opposed to impartially providing information, propaganda in its most basic sense presents information in order to influence its audience. Propaganda often presents facts selectively (thus lying by omission) 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... full article at wikipedia

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film	initial release date
Five Men of Australia	Aug 1942
Hochzeit im Korallenmeer	1945
Triumph of the Will	Mar 28, 1935
Education for Death	1943
Der Fuehrer's Face	1943
Kolberg	1945
Victory Through Air Power	Jul 17, 1943
Titanic	Nov 10, 1943
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Tag der Freiheit	Dec 30, 1935
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written work	author
Brave New World	Aldous Huxley
Media Control	Noam Chomsky
Manufacturing Consent	Noam Chomsky Edward S. Herman
Propaganda	Edward Bernays
Global spin	Sharon Beder
Wartime	Paul Fussell
Staging a Revolution	Hamid Dabashi
Weapons of mass deception	Sheldon Rampton
Inventing reality	Michael Parenti
The first casualty	Phillip Knightley
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Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.	Jean Anouilh
The current flows fast and furious. It issues in a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the politicians. Every day they tell us that we are a free people fighting to defend freedom. That is the current that has whirled the young airman up into the sky and keeps him circulating there among the clouds. Down here, with a roof to cover us and a gas mask handy, it is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.	Virginia Woolf
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.	Eric Hoffer
The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.	Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.	Hubert Humphrey
The successor to politics will be propaganda. Propaganda, not in the sense of a message or ideology, but as the impact of the whole technology of the times.	Marshall McLuhan
Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?	Bertrand Russell
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