Category:Propaganda

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Pertaining to the deliberate and systematic distortion of information in the service of a cause. When carried out by businesses, the term is 'public relations', a term invented by Edward Bernays. Politics has birthed its own PC terms, "Spin", so a "propagandist" becomes a "spin-doctor"; an unlikely conjunction, one might think, considering the posiive connotations of the word doctor.