Detecting propagandaDetecting propagandaPart 1Part 1

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GROUP “G”DESSY MITRA DEWI

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M. MUTTAQIN HANIF201112500593

FARIDATUL ILMIAH201112500659

What is propaganda ?What is propaganda ?

The word ‘propaganda’ is defined as designating any attempt to influence the opinions or actions

of others to some predetermined and by appealing to their emotions or prejudices or by distorting the fact.

PROPAGANDA DEVICESPROPAGANDA DEVICESPart 11. Name Calling2. Glittering Generalities3. Transfer

Part 24. Testimonial5. Plain Folks6. Card Stacking7. Band Wagon

Name CallingName Calling• Is a device to make us form

judgment without examining the evidence on which it should be based. Here the propagandist appeals to our hate and fear. He does this by giving “bad names” to those individuals, groups, nations, races, policies, practices, and ideas that would have us condemn and reject.

Example: Example: name calling name calling

Carloanzah Libriano is a playboy.

Glittering generalitiesGlittering generalities

Is a device by which the propagandistIs identifies his program with virtue,by use of “virtue word”.Glittering generalities is a device tomake us accept and approve withoutexamining the evidence.

example: example: glittering glittering generalitiesgeneralities

The Rainbow Troops is the best seller book from Andrea Hirata, because this book is very entertaining and interesting.

TransferTransfer

Is a device by which the propagandist carries over the authority, sanction, and prestige of something we respect and revere to something he would have us accept.

Example: Example: transfertransfer

Megawati Soekarno Putri is using his father's name and photograph for the presidential election campaign.

eXERCISEseXERCISEs

1. Senator Sandi Roger is a two-faced politician.

2. Samsung Galaxy S4 is the best and faster mobile phone in the world.

3. Independent laboratory tests show Puresilk is the best for your skin.

4. My close friend is very stubborn.5. Come to Bali, where you can enjoy

paradise-like life.

“Detecting PropagandaPart 1”

(this presentation is an excerpt of Chapter 6 of “Critical Reading”, an internal publication of Unindra)