{"id":20254,"date":"2023-07-18T15:35:38","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T22:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=20254"},"modified":"2023-07-18T15:35:38","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T22:35:38","slug":"learning-about-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2023\/07\/18\/learning-about-propaganda\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning About Propaganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Most people now-a-days thinks that propaganda is all about peddling lies, and that if it is true (or people believe it is true), that they aren\u2019t being propagandized against. In reality, propaganda is about shaping perceptions of reality, even when it comes to perception of truth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This old educational film from early in the Cold War demonstrates how subtle, and effective, propaganda techniques can be.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8AGpILvdwDM\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;One can use this knowledge to be a bit more critical of what others are trying to convince you of\u2026 and use it yourself to great effect.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/elections-propaganda.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/elections-propaganda.png 727w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/elections-propaganda-300x222.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1px) 100vw, 1px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\"><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatblog\"><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalhat\"><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Learning About Propaganda\"><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Most people now-a-days thinks that propaganda is all about peddling lies, and that if it is true (or people believe it is true), that they aren\u2019t being propagandized against.  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In reality, propaganda is about shaping perceptions of reality, even when &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2023\/07\/18\/learning-about-propaganda\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,13,17,1],"tags":[19,15,33,62],"class_list":["post-20254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-elections","category-progressives","category-uncategorized","tag-communism","tag-democrats","tag-gop","tag-patriotism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20256,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20254\/revisions\/20256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}