Notes from a lecture:

The main change since my first time doing this lecture, is the ways in which these concepts now have become commonplace in journalism critique. They did not use to be. But anyway — what is propaganda? And how does it relate to the study of rhetoric? A group of smart MA students meeting tomorrow to discuss the matter. By way of an illustration, here is one of those old-time Hollywood propaganda stunts — propaganda is not a new phenomenon, and neither is good propaganda. But again — the most difficult propaganda to discuss is the kind that does not fly in your face :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l14WDZCnz-w

Lecture notes here: mhg-gj-news-and-war-2016

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