Abstract
Persuasive mass communication that filters and frames the issues of the day in a way that strongly favors particular interests; usually those of a government or corporation (compare agenda setting). Also, the intentional manipulation of public opinion through lies, half-truths, and the selective re-telling of history. See also disinformation; manufacture of consent; public relations. (Source: Oxford Reference Dictionary)"In the ethical sense, Propaganda bears the same relation to education as to business or politics. It may be abused. It may be used to over-advertise an institution and to create in the public mind artificial values. There can be no absolute guarantee against its misuse."(Edward Louis Bernays, Propaganda,1928)Is it really so? What can be done to make people aware of the techniques put in place to create what Bernays calls “artificial values”? Which purposes do these artificial values serve and by whom are they orchestrated?
