Censorship, Propaganda and Globalization

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The paper contends that large corporations utilize strategies of censorship, propaganda and globalization that alienates the populace and destroys people's faith in being governed. The paper explains that this is in order to restructure a supra-capitalist, technocratic society. The paper shows the difference between censorship and propaganda and discusses how globalization can cause a level of propaganda that leads people to believe that censorship is what they want and need.

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"What is the difference between censorship and propaganda? "Intelligent men must realize that propaganda is the modern instrument by which they can fight for productive ends and help to bring order out of chaos" (Bernays 168) . Censorship is the "suppression of information, whether purposeful or not, by any method--including bias, omission, underreporting or censorship--that prevents the public from understanding what is happening in society" (Jensen 419) . Webster is more to the point. A censor is one "who reads communications and deletes forbidden material" (Webster 135) . Since there are many different kinds of information or knowledge in society that need to be forbidden because they are harmful to certain groups (i.e., the use of drugs, pornography, assault weapons), what rationale legitimizes suppressed information as forbidden and therefore potentially harmful? The rationale is "to bring order out of chaos" by the instrument of propaganda: "the conscious and intelligent manipulation of the masses" (Bernays 37)."

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