Propaganda

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Propaganda is any kind of presentation that seeks to persuade its audience to a predetermined position through emotional cues or selective omission (e.g. interpretive framing), rather than to document a process of truth-discovery via honest examination of evidence.

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Reference

• Wikipedia
• Conservapedia actually has a pretty decent article, but categorizes it under "Liberalism" and "Liberal Traits"
• dKosopedia
• SourceWatch
• RationalWiki

Books

• Propaganda by Edward Bernays (1928)

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• 2004/02/20 [L..T] Soldier for the Truth: Exposing Bush's talking-points war The neocons had three reasons for the US to invade Iraq: (1) sanctions were working, not leaving US companies in a favored position for doing business in Iraq; (2) the US needed a location for military bases; (3) the US needed to ensure that oil would continue to be traded in dollars.