Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unusual privileges to photograph inside a Red Army barracks and a Soviet courtroom, and to spend days trailing ordinary citizens around. Inevitably, what is shown is often appealingly human, so even in Britain, where there is more tolerance in such matters than in this country, there were complaints of propaganda when the series was shown. Anticipating trouble, Frontline decided to add "wraparounds" to discuss concerns about propaganda. (Usually when the subject is Communism, a prudent station operator wants at least one panelist who will argue that Gorbachev is no better than a smiling Genghis Khan.) Which raises another question...
...Prensa, the only remaining opposition daily in Managua. The 60- year-old newspaper's campaign against Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle once helped to put the revolutionary regime in power. Even so, Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega Saavedra insists that La Prensa has become a vehicle for CIA propaganda and will remain closed until the "war" is over...
...masturbatory material for shut-ins, or as an expression of anxiety by males who are threatened by the women's movement. But some of the more militant feminists take a darker view: porn is a conscious assault against women, comparable to antiblack and anti-Semitic literature. "Pornography is virulent propaganda against women," says Author Susan Brownmiller. "It promotes a climate in which the ideology of rape is not only tolerated but encouraged." In her book Pornography, Andrea Dworkin calls violence "the prime component of male identity" and says porn is an expression of men's abusive control of women...
Reagan bristles at the notion that he is not popular among the nation's poor and among those who think his policies are harsh and uncharitable. It is only "propaganda," he insists, that his budgets have cut heavily into federal programs for nutrition and hunger. "We were poor when I was young, but the difference then was the Government didn't come around telling you you were poor," he says, harking back to the tradition of community help from sources other than the Government. "My mother, God rest her soul, was the kindest, God-loving person I have ever known...
Perhaps it is time to amend the familiar high-modernist view of Rivera as a gifted painter deformed by the needs of propaganda. Sometimes his work was too openly didactic and coarse grained, too attached to populist stereotypes of love, comradeship, struggle and work. It offended the etiquette of alienation. Too bad--he was still an extraordinary painter, a lighthouse of vitality. Nobody could say Rivera kept a steady political line, but at least he was no ideologue; his socialism was instinctive and antitotalitarian, like Picasso's, but much deeper. Rivera gave Leon Trotsky asylum from Stalinist assassins (including...