#propaganda

{President] Kayibanda's government [in Rwanda] continued the persecution against the Tutsis and began to make use of the media it controlled to launch a propaganda campaign against us. In a country where more than half the people cannot read or write and very few have televisions, radio is the dominant media. The fact that some newspapers were still printing the truth didn't matter much to the part of the population that couldn't read. Most of the literate people were already politically aware. While an educated person might question what they read or hear from the media, the uneducated tend to accept it. The uneducated are more easily affected by threats and the emotional trauma that propaganda like this can create. ↗

— John Rucyahana

#genocide #media #propaganda #radio #rwanda

Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#application #clever #consider #constant #hell

The media—stenographers to power. ↗

— Amy Goodman

#power #propaganda #truth #propaganda

See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda. ↗

— George W. Bush

#propaganda

For an event that was wholly created in the poisonous psychological warfare kitchens of the Second World War, run by the ministries of propaganda in many countries, not just by the British or the Americans, but also the Russians and undoubtedly the world Jewish organizations. ↗

— Ernst Zundel

#british #countries #created #event #jewish

It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

#makes #mass #mass media #media #possible

For two years living in a neutral country I have been able to see through the haze of propaganda to reach something which my conscience tells me is the truth. ↗

— John Amery

#been #conscience #country #haze #i

I don't think it's the job of theatre at the moment to provide political propaganda; that would be simplistic. We have to explore our situation further before we will understand it. ↗

— Edward Bond

#explore #further #i #job #moment

Ayman Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's deputy, as well as Abu Musab Zarqawi, have made it quite clear in their internal propaganda that they cannot win unless they can drive the Americans out. And they know that they can't do that there, so they've brought the battlefield to the halls of Congress. ↗

— Geoff Davis

#battlefield #bin #brought #cannot #clear

And it was under Wilson that the first great propaganda slogan was coined and emblazoned everywhere, to make Americans start thinking favorably of democracies and forget that we had a republic. ↗

— Robert Welch

#democracies #everywhere #first #forget #great