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propaganda

January 5, 2020

Dakar Rally 'must not be used for Saudi propaganda purposes'

Journalists are being urged not to allow the Saudi regime to exploit the event for propaganda purposes.
May 17, 2019

Reporters Without Borders welcomes UK investigation into Chinese state TV channel

Reporters Without Borders has welcomed the launch of an investigation by Ofcom into Chinese state television network CGTN for airing forced confessions.
February 25, 2019

RSF decries criminal libel proceedings against Polish newspaper

The Polish ruling party's leader has called for a newspaper to be prosecuted after it questioned his involvement in a Warsaw building project.
September 25, 2014

Bombing Iraq: falling into Isis trap?

The UK government is seeking parliament’s approval to join the USA in carrying out air strikes on Iraq. The aim is to weaken Isis forces, responsible for various atrocities. But the attack may strengthen them instead.
April 15, 2014

The media argument over welfare reform

The Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC), meeting in Dundee from 14-16 April 2014), has passed an extensive motion on welfare reform and the effects of poverty in the UK.
January 30, 2014

DWP: public servant or propaganda vehicle?

The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP), a government department which appears to be increasingly and inappropriately fashioned by the the ideological welfare-cutting politics of secretary of state Iain Duncan Smith, displays some interesting communications priorities.
October 27, 2013

Political slogans: making squares into circles

Propaganda could be described as persuasion without morals. It has been a tool of power for centuries and in our own time, its use in inculcating a state of belief which is not in proportion to evidence, is most clearly seen in politicians' choice and use of slogans.
May 23, 2013

Fraternity, propaganda and transformation: thinking about 'welfare'

The government is using many of the classic tools of propaganda to influence our thinking about 'welfare' and those who receive it, says Jill Segger. She argues that we need to turn again to the real meaning of Jesus' transformative relationships with the despised.
August 12, 2012

Hong Kong protests against Chinese education curriculum

Some 90,000 Hong Kong people took to the streets recently to urge the government to withdraw a controversial new Chinese education curriculum.
May 10, 2008

Burma's dictators make propaganda out of suffering

Burma's military regime is distributing international aid today. But it is covering the boxes with the names of top generals in an effort to turn the relief effort for last week's devastating cyclone into a propaganda exercise.