ReDePer: It’ All About the ‘Ception’

Don’t be fooled. Propaganda is all about reception, deception and perception. Propaganda can be defined as organized, persuasive communication. Propaganda is mainly a democratic problem when the propaganda is hidden. Modern propaganda is usually hidden as ‘journalism’. When people believe they are being told the truth (or at least an honest attempt to tell the truth) but they are actually being sold a story, the people are being deceived. Deception is at the very core of problematic propaganda promoting a society based on lies. Deception is both in the hidden nature of propaganda itself and in the deceptions that the […]