1.1The dissemination of propaganda as a political strategy.
‘the party's leaders believed that a long period of education and propaganda would be necessary’
‘This stands, as we shall see, in a long tradition of propaganda by deed.’
‘The miners were no angels but the media was blatantly and cynically used as a propaganda machine for the government.’
‘The third method is to set up a system of accountability for propaganda work.’
‘The role of the government propaganda camps known as public schools cannot be discounted in all this.’
‘Perhaps only a long period of education or propaganda could remove our abhorrence.’
‘One part of what we have to do is contest reformism's ideas and practices, in direct argument and propaganda.’
‘It is time our student funded newspaper practised true journalism and not propaganda.’
‘It all looked terribly cool, the power of propaganda and marketing at work.’
‘The Cold War may be over, but the intelligence-gathering and propaganda machines grind on.’
‘The US media and politicians were quick to spot the propaganda potential of these victories.’
‘The influence of advertisers is only one element of this propaganda system.’
‘Removal of context is one of most persistent propaganda tactics around.’
‘The Independent's source then shed additional light on the tactics of the government propaganda machine.’
‘The media and the government started a fierce propaganda campaign to change this opinion.’
‘What should have been a propaganda coup for Germany turned out to be the opposite.’
‘To regard this as a propaganda coup is to misunderstand the sociopathic threat that confronts us.’
2
(also Propaganda)
A committee of cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church responsible for foreign missions, founded in 1622 by Pope Gregory XV.
Origin
Italian, from modern Latin congregatio de propaganda fide ‘congregation for propagation of the faith’ (see propaganda (sense 2)). propaganda (sense 1) dates from the early 20th century.
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