Word: propagandas
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...personal and painful for Harvard students who have had an abortion, or who are close to someone who has. There are many ways that Right to Life could distribute pro-life information in a way that is not harmful to these students. For example, by designing more factual, less propaganda-like types of posters, Right to Life could state their message without making fellow students uncomfortable. For students considering having an abortion, they could advertise resources or a hotline to provide students with information on other options. Free speech and activism for a cause are extremely important at Harvard. However...
...thus, The Salient should have asked itself, “Does publishing these cartoons help our allies or our enemies?” The ensuing riots that some of our allies have struggled to subdue, and the inevitable use of these cartoons as recruiting tools and propaganda by the Jihadists answer this question loudly and clearly. There are other means by which The Salient could have challenged Harvard’s misguided sensitivities, but in this instance, The Salient has put its desire to grandstand and challenge the liberal orthodoxy of Harvard ahead of our country’s goal...
...Nightmare” demonstrates the validity of political expression in art today. In recent years, particularly with Michael Moore’s films like “Fahrenheit 9/11,” both casual viewers and uptight critics questioned whether political documentaries constitute “propaganda.” With each box office hit also came strong critiques and even counter-argumentative books and films...
...association of political films with propaganda springs partially from their similarly visceral impact and their ability to affect the viewer; however, as a spectator pointed out after Sauper’s screening of “Darwin’s Nightmare” two months ago at the Harvard Film Archive, any successful art form shakes viewers emotionally. This effect should not be deemed as ghastly or even as a synonym of the much feared “propaganda.” In fact, it is quite the opposite. Drawing from scholarly research by P. M. Taylor, the main difference...
...will keep any viewer thinking for a long time to come: about fish, about globalization, and about what each of us can do. In Sauper’s own words, he merely “gets some brains boiling.” By avoiding the dangers of propaganda and staying in the realm of art, he successfully challenges audiences worldwide. And with some luck, this might earn him an Academy Award in less than a month...