Propaganda
Channel: Say it in Italian
Date: 2012-11-19

Propaganda is the form of communication that is aimed at influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position (or a product) by presenting only one side of an argument. It is usually repeated and dispersed over a wide variety of media in order to create the chosen result in audience attitudes.
While the term acquired a strongly negative connotation by association with its most manipulative and jingoistic examples (e.g. Nazi Propaganda used to justify the Holocaust), propaganda in its original sense was neutral, and could refer to uses that were generally benign or innocuous, such as public health recommendations, signs encouraging citizens to participate in a census or election, or messages encouraging persons to report crimes to the police, among others.