Posted on 01/18/2024 8:51:11 AM PST by MeganC
A useful reference for identifying and accurately calling out propaganda techniques when you see them. This is worth bookmarking!
-- TIMESTAMPS --
0:00 Agenda Setting 0:09 Appeal to Fear 0:15 Appeal to Prejudice 0:20 Inevitable Victory 0:33 Join the Crowd 0:41 Beautiful People 0:56 Big Lie 1:06 Classical Conditioning 1:18 Cognitive Dissonance 1:32 Plain Folk 1:51 Cult of Personality 2:07 Demonizing the Enemy 2:13 Demoralization 2:20 Dictat 2:30 Disinformation 2:43 Divide and Rule 2:54 Euphemism 3:02 Euphoria 3:12 FUD 3:28 Firehose of Falsehood 3:41 Flag Waving 3:50 Flak 3:55 Foot in the Door Technique 4:09 Framing 4:19 Gish Gallop 4:29 Glittering Generalities 4:48 Guilt by Association 4:58 Half Truth 5:12 Information Overload 7:06 Intentional Vagueness 7:17 Labeling 7:22 Latitudes of Acceptance 7:43 Limited Hangout 8:02 Loaded Language 8:08 Love Bombing 8:18 Milieu control 8:34 Obfuscation 8:39 Operant Conditioning 8:47 Oversimplification 8:53 Paltering 8:58 Pensée Unique 9:03 Quotes out of Context 9:07 Rationalization 9:17 Repetition 9:23 Scapegoating 9:34 Semantic Satiation 9:45 Smear Campaign 9:52 Testimonials 9:58 Third Party Technique 10:07 Transfer 10:15 Unstated Assumption 10:24 Whataboutism 10:33 Misuse of Statistics
— TIMESTAMPS —
0:00 Agenda Setting
0:09 Appeal to Fear
0:15 Appeal to Prejudice
0:20 Inevitable Victory
0:33 Join the Crowd
0:41 Beautiful People
0:56 Big Lie
1:06 Classical Conditioning
1:18 Cognitive Dissonance
1:32 Plain Folk
1:51 Cult of Personality
2:07 Demonizing the Enemy
2:13 Demoralization
2:20 Dictat
2:30 Disinformation
2:43 Divide and Rule
2:54 Euphemism
3:02 Euphoria
3:12 FUD
3:28 Firehose of Falsehood
3:41 Flag Waving
3:50 Flak
3:55 Foot in the Door Technique
4:09 Framing
4:19 Gish Gallop
4:29 Glittering Generalities
4:48 Guilt by Association
4:58 Half Truth
5:12 Information Overload
7:06 Intentional Vagueness
7:17 Labeling
7:22 Latitudes of Acceptance
7:43 Limited Hangout
8:02 Loaded Language
8:08 Love Bombing
8:18 Milieu control
8:34 Obfuscation
8:39 Operant Conditioning
8:47 Oversimplification
8:53 Paltering
8:58 Pensée Unique
9:03 Quotes out of Context
9:07 Rationalization
9:17 Repetition
9:23 Scapegoating
9:34 Semantic Satiation
9:45 Smear Campaign
9:52 Testimonials
9:58 Third Party Technique
10:07 Transfer
10:15 Unstated Assumption
10:24 Whataboutism
10:33 Misuse of Statistics
Reference ping.
There’s some overlap between categories, but it is GREAT to see these listed in one compact piece.
Thanks.
The Rules of the Master......
Goebbels’ Principles of Propaganda
Propagandists must have access to intelligence concerning events and public opinion.
Propaganda must be planned and executed by only one authority.
It must issue all the propaganda directives.
It must explain propaganda directives to important officials and maintain their morale.
It must oversee other agencies’ activities which have propaganda consequences.
The Propaganda consequences of an action must be considered in planning that action.
Propaganda must affect the enemy’s policy and actions.
By suppressing propagandistically desirable material which can provide the enemy with useful intelligence.
By openly disseminating propaganda whose contents or tone causes the enemy to draw the desired conclusions.
By goading the enemy into revealing vital information about himself.
By making no reference to a desired enemy activity when any reference would discredit that activity.
Declassified, operational information must be available to implement a propaganda campaign.
To be perceived, propaganda must evoke the interest of an audience and must be transmitted through an attention-getting medium.
Credibility alone must determine whether propaganda output should be true or false.
The purpose, content, and effectiveness of enemy propaganda; the strength and effects of an expose’; and the nature of current propaganda campaigns determine whether enemy propaganda should be ignored or refuted.
Credibility, intelligence, and the possible effects of communicating determine whether propaganda materials should be censored.
Material from enemy propaganda may be utilized in operations when it helps diminish that enemy’s prestige or lends support to the propagandist’s own objective.
Black rather than white propaganda must be employed when the latter is less credible or produces undesirable effects.
Propaganda may be facilitated by leaders with prestige.
Propaganda must be carefully timed.
The communication must reach the audience ahead of competing propaganda.
A propaganda campaign must begin at the optimum moment.
A propaganda theme must be repeated, but not beyond some point of diminishing effectiveness.
Propaganda must label events and people with distinctive phrases or slogans.
They must evoke responses which the audience previously possesses.
They must be capable of being easily learned.
They must be utilized again and again, but only in appropriate situations.
They must be boomerang-proof.
Propaganda to the home front must prevent the raising of false hopes which can be blasted by future events.
Propaganda to the home front must create an optimum anxiety level.
Propaganda must reinforce anxiety concerning the consequences of defeat.
Propaganda must diminish anxiety (other than that concerning the consequences of defeat) which is too high and cannot be reduced by people themselves.
Propaganda to the home front must diminish the impact of frustration.
Inevitable frustrations must be anticipated.
Inevitable frustrations must be placed in perspective.
Propaganda must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for hatred.
Propaganda cannot immediately affect strong counter-tendencies; instead it must offer some form of action or diversion, or both.
These would be principles guiding the conduct of propaganda operations.
And every one of them are being used by the Democrats.
Bfl
“And every one of them are being used by the Democrats.”
They’re also extremely popular on Free Republic these days. Far too many posters will chime in on certain topics as if someone blew a dog whistle. And instead of responding to the topic they distract from it, try to start a new discussion, they attack the person posting it, they attack whoever wrote it, and etc.
Jim Robinson asked for less propaganda on FR and I would hope to support his wish by making more people aware of propaganda techniques and in the other post today I also put up a reference on Logical Fallacies.
I’ve been on FR since 2009 and would love to see the level of discussion here go back to what it used to be.
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Regular use of these techniques by what is called the “mainstream media” shows why they are actually the “propaganda media”. We should stop giving them the respect that the title “mainstream media” gives them. If we do not wish to be inflammatory, we could call them the establishment media or something similar.
I prefer “propaganda media.” It would be very interesting to keep a running total of all the different techniques that we see in many so-called news shows, but definitely in the commentary shows.
Main-Stream-Brain-Washing-Media BUMP
I would also like to see more elevated discussion but many great members were run off during presidential elections and primaries the last decade or so and they aren’t coming back.
This election cycle the Desanctimonious people and the Orange Man bad people are at each other’s throats. Some are disrupters but it will have the same affect regardless.
I 100% agree with your great post!
“”””I would also like to see more elevated discussion but many great members were run off during presidential elections and primaries the last decade or so and they aren’t coming back.””””
I notice that politics are not discussed here much anymore.
We used to really dig into things, histories, details, and primaries, deep research was a given but now things are simple and shallow.
good stuff...
Goebbels’ Principles of Propaganda /Karl Marx /1984 /Stalin/Linen how many manuals does the democrat party have?.
Fundamental change on the march
Spot on ansel. 10 years ago the forum was intellectually robust. I’m sure trolls from every manner of subversive entities had a lot to do with it. That’s why I don’t get into prolonged *arguments* that run off into the weeds. Half the time I’m sure it’s an FBI stooge or a bot. Yet here I am. Appreciate the reply.
I think we still had the raving troll types and you can see that many of them have been here a long time, but they were diluted by the great numbers of the political hard-core who were thinkers and knew why they believed as they did and would discuss or argue the whys and reasons and the different candidates etc.
Today the troll personalities are dominant because of the fewer numbers of the more thoughtful and readable posters, so threads end up being skippable in advance since we won’t learn anything from the discussion because there won’t really be one anyway.
Now it is more common to look at the article and skip the thread.
I haven’t been able to find it lately but there is a US Army Psyops manual from about 1961 or so that is a wealth of information regarding logical fallacies. It goes into the fallacies by their technical names and explains them in a manner anyone can understand. I’ll try to find it. I think I posted it here 15 or more years ago.
When you read through it there is a distinct feeling that every, EVERY, successful politician has studied it
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