One could try to influence the democratic
process by propaganda and make people choose the most rational course of action.
Again, Judith Curry ignores the intelligent agnostic position — we are not
fooled by propaganda from anywhere.
Tropical Traditions changed the market and the public's perception regarding coconut oil and saturated fats, and today coconut oil is widely available in stores everywhere and only considered unhealthy by those
misinformed by the propaganda against saturated fats.
The public are «constantly
bombarded by the propaganda of the enemy, often quite sympathetically treated by their own media, to the effect that it's really all «our», that is the West's fault,» he said.
In fact, however, the freedom publicly to propagate a certain idea, for example, inevitably narrows my own sphere of freedom provided only that I am freely opposed to this propaganda and that I am undoubtedly myself changed
by this propaganda in as much as the preconditions of my personal decision are themselves altered by it.
Tropical Traditions changed the market and the public's perception regarding coconut oil and saturated fats, and today coconut oil is widely available in stores everywhere and only considered unhealthy by those misinformed
by the propaganda against saturated fats.
Describing President Mahama's challenge as
fueled by propaganda and a «demonstration of incompetence» via Facebook,...
I just love it when journalists or academics take it upon themselves to write books or articles explaining how fully one half of Americans are
deluded by propaganda.
Therefore, their partisanship for the National Liberation Front was prompted by political views, by doctrinal or intellectual considerations, or — in most cases —
simply by propaganda.
We have been victims these last 23
months by the propaganda, swiftboating tactics by the republicans, and, to add salt to the wounds they now have questionable, outside millions being spent on their campaigns.
The question of saving power in the nation is the question of whether there is a minority, even a small one, which is willing to resist the anxiety
produced by propaganda, the conformity enforced by threat, the hatred stimulated by ignorance.
The organization obtains its members from the general body of supporters
won by propaganda.
However, it could relate to outdated or non-scientific studies, sometimes
driven by propaganda, like in Eastern Europe 30 years ago.
«This reform is necessary hard work, and will not be
derailed by propaganda, blackmail, and deliberate misrepresentation of facts.
Much that has been written about Philby derives from memory or speculation without documentary support; some is
colored by propaganda, and some is pure fantasy.
They said the book was anti-communist, that it should be
banned by the propaganda department because it has evil political aims, that it stands for liberalism and capitalism.
A leading performance artist, Tania Bruguera (MFA 2001) researches relationships between art and politics, specifically transformations of social affect into political effectiveness and institutional structures of collective memory, education, and politics, and some of her performances interrogate the Cuban Revolution's failed promises and evoke the realities
masked by propaganda and mass - media interpretation.
But the developing nations refused to consider such reductions, and the U.S. Senate,
spurred by a propaganda campaign led by right - wing and industrial interests, rejected the Kyoto treaty in advance.
For too long, well - meaning policymakers have been
misled by propaganda, masquerading as science, that more atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) will harm the planet.
Not the unusual winter warmth in much of the United States — but the unrelenting heat
generated by propaganda and pressure campaigns that the White House, EPA, Big Green and news media are unleashing in the wake of the Paris climate agreement... and as a prelude...
Representatives of Facebook, Google, and Twitter told members of the Senate judiciary committee Tuesday afternoon that they deplored the «vile» anti-immigrant, Islamophobic and other bigoted messages
spread by a propaganda factory linked to the Kremlin.
This doesn't mean that they are intrinsically bad people, but rather, that most Americans are uneducated, easily
influenced by propaganda, and lack critical thinking skills and the ability to question purported authority figures.
Describing President Mahama's challenge as
fueled by propaganda and a «demonstration of incompetence» via Facebook, Dr. Bawumia said the President could have simply asked his running mate, who was Bank of Ghana Governor between 2009 and 2012.
Francis Lawrence shoots everything with that backdrop visible; skulls and skeletons of obliterated civilians creep into the edge of the frame, while a beautiful off - the - cuff rendition of The Hanging Tree (by Katniss, with a hint of Lawrence's Winters Bone) is swiftly packaged up
by the propaganda machine and turned into an earworm calling people to action.
We are dominated not by force but by trivialization,
not by propaganda but by infantile gratification, not by lies but by by what Kierkegaard called «twaddle.»
I was taken in
by the propaganda of the time, that showed happy Aboriginal children at bedtime climbing the mansion stairs to the sumptuous bedrooms of assimilation.
At the time, she had been taken in
by the propaganda, only to learn in the long years after just how deceived she had been.