Reflection Paper On Propaganda

Opening my reflection paper, I want to agree with the author’s words and put stress that “Propaganda works best with an uncritical audience. People are bamboozled mainly because they don’t recognize propaganda when they see it.” I would not be afraid to say that people are zombified, and take no attempt to recognize and destroy propaganda. Society admits propaganda as truth and denies real truth naming it propaganda.

We can start the analysis from the very first point: Name Calling. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948, states that: "Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms without distinction of any kind, such as race, color, sex, language, religion, political or another opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or another status." As indicated in the article,

And it is testimonial. Donna Woolfolk Cross characterizes it as an advantage of “having some loved or respected person who give a statement of support (testimonial) for a given product or idea”. Shortly saying, testimonials are quotations to support or reject action, candidate, idea or program. Public follows authority itself, rather than its argumentation. Propagandists or promoters merely use the name of a respected man. It is a wide practice to use celebrity to promote some brand, a person becomes a face of the company, and presents himself in all commercial ads on TV and banners. The politician also do not neglect celebrities endorsement. This is done in an effort to cause the public to accept the authority's opinions and take his beliefs as its own. It reminds marketing strategy of the third-party technique. It is a common fact that people are more willing to accept an independent source of information than officials. And it is tricky with testimonials when the public sees that well-respected person is supporting something they want to join his winning