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propaganda theory  

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  • Propaganda is a form of persuasion involving a mass message campaign designed to discourage rational thought and to suppress evidence. The term is also used to refer to individual messages as in a piece of propaganda, often as a pejorative term used to attack a message in disagreement with the source of the pejorative. [Source: Encyclopedia of Communication Theory; Propaganda Theory]

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