Word: propaganda
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...Shady Connections A former Abu Sayyaf member says that, faced with the government's successes, the group is now waging a hearts-and-minds campaign of its own. "They are going back to basics, meaning recruitment and propaganda," the man says. "The goal is to avoid military confrontation for two years so their recruitment efforts will not be compromised. [Igasan] is busy recording audio and video propaganda messages...
...case of the protests against the Olympic torch relay, which were sparked by the Tibet crackdown, the angry response of ordinary Chinese was automatically presumed to be stoked by propaganda. The reality is that Chinese people are not a brainwashed bunch. While they may rely more heavily on domestic news sources, they do realize that the information is censored, and many who read English seek Western news. My Western compatriots, in contrast, trust solely in a market-driven Western press that caters to the popular mood and plays on public fears about a rising power culturally different from their...
...Chinese graphic designer has not been a happy one. In mainland China design was, for a long time, an instrument of socialist propaganda, and to be a graphic designer was to be a sort of mechanic, running chunky, graceless type across posters of model peasants or valiant soldiers. In Hong Kong and Taiwan, designers spent much of the 20th century toiling in the service of another omnipotent master - the export market, which required packaging and other printed matter produced strictly to Western specifications and sensibilities. Questions of form, style and color were not settled upon locally, but in British...
...means cloud) trains at the Weifang City Sports School, one of 3,000 state-run athletics academies that consign nearly 400,000 youngsters to a form of athletic servitude. Sitting under the watchful eyes of her coach and a man who identifies himself as the school's "propaganda director," Cloud tells me that weight-lifting is her favorite sport. Any hobbies? I ask. "Weight-lifting," she answers. Anything Cloud likes besides weight-lifting? "Weight-lifting," she repeats. I try again. Cloud glances at the two men near her. Behind them is a poster of Chairman Mao Zedong, the founder...
...refreshing to see such integrity on a subject that is usually fueled by rampant propaganda and scare tactics from the American Medical Association, the Food and Drug Administration, the CDC and the pharmaceutical industry. James Sites, LITTLETON, COLO...