Propaganda

1041.In the case of propaganda using purely rational material the style is factual, information or logical,

and the act of persuasion lies mainly in the selection of facts favorable to the argument and the

leaving out or discounting of those which are not. … The purely emotional [style of propaganda]

relies on the use of subjective ideas projected with a high level of emotive force accompanied

probably by an exploitation of some or all of the techniques of event management. OLIVER

THOMSON, Easily Led: A History of Propaganda, 1999

Thomson is making a statement about propaganda being a manipulation of truth. He feels that in propaganda only the convenient truths are told to persuade its audience. Showing that with persuasion such as propaganda actual fact and validity of an argument become fairly arbitrary when one can simply pick and choose from anything in a way that emboldens the argument while ignoring any flaws in it. He paints propaganda to be more a tool of deception than an actual means of education or logical reasoning.