Word: propagandist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Perhaps it is too much to expect of him, perhaps the audience's reaction shows that he is just a reflection of a more general misogyny. But this cannot excuse him. The slides, presumably added as humor, gave the concert a sinister feel. A musician need not be a propagandist of rape culture. David Woodruff...
Professor John Womack has objected to the appointment of Dr. Robert Leiken as an associate at the Center for International Affairs on the ground that he is a "propagandist" for the anti-Sandanista forces in Nicaragua. Dr. Leiken, in long articles for the New York Review of Books (a liberal periodical) and The New Republic, a Democratic Party supporter, was critical of the right-wing in the contras, but also critical of the Managua government...
...Newspapers in the West, when writing about communist countries, definitely have a propagandist slant. They try and connect these movements with those 30 years ago, and I don't think the students themselves have that in mind," says Hu Hong '89, a Biochemistry concentrator from the capital, Beijing...
Journalist Phillip Knightley prefers his legends lightly tarnished. An earlier book, The First Casualty: From the Crimea to Vietnam: The War Correspondent as Hero, Propagandist, and Myth Maker, removed the romantic luster from combat journalism. The Second Oldest Profession: Spies and Spying in the Twentieth Century is a pickling look at the romantic past and bureaucratic present of the flourishing espionage business...
...Reagan's nationally televised speech on defense spending. Taking advantage of its hookup with Moscow, the network gave Posner an opportunity to comment for seven minutes. This infuriated Patrick J. Buchanan, Reagan's director of communications, who criticized ABC in a letter for giving air time to a "trained propagandist." Richard Wald, ABC News senior vice president, agreed in a statement that the network had erred by "letting (Posner) push on at too great a length without an opposing voice to point out the errors and inconsistencies in what he said...