PERSUASION & PROPAGANDA

Persuasion, Politics, and Propaganda

Persuasion, Politics, and Propaganda

Introduction

In order to promote personal requirement or influence the mass's mind, persuasion plays an important role, this could be considered as good if the deed is performed with good intensions. The war of politics has changed our minds by the persuasive efforts and the propaganda which are now a common practice. Media's persuasion and political propaganda have affected people's decision making powers; these influencing strategies are been used by the politicians for centuries, and will continue to do so in the future. Recreating the way somebody believe and feels about subject that plagues the back of their mind.

Persuasion, Politics and Propaganda

The relationship between politics and the political issues is a very old one; it appears as if they are a single unit. There are several ways of recovering information about political issues such as newspapers, magazines, television, and the internet. They help us to learn and understand the concerns that a nation faces internationally (Cunningham, 2002). When faced with issues that cause alarm to oneself or a group of people, an individual has the right to speak up and voice his or her opinion. Not every person will agree on one individual's way, to combat the area under discussion, they still have the right to voice their own belief and attempt to sway the individual in favor of their view.

The Case for War in Iraq

Public opinion is one of the main effects which can produce the media is a subject that is under pressure receiver of messages from the media. This gives the media a reality that is critical as the exercise of power. The media have the virtue of having effects on the opinions, attitudes and behavior of people, and sometimes are oriented towards the production and transformation of meanings about the events.

The aim of this paper is, to show how the media-mainly American-produced and transformed the meaning of the war in Iraq and how that influenced public opinion. To this end, a study of the content of messages sent by the media during 2003 and 2004-years that begin and end the war in Iraq and their effect on the receiver. There is a clear contrast between an overly critical press that emerged at the end of the war and its docility before it, worrying trend of U.S. media.

Initially, the media were in favor of the war had even a moderate consensus among liberals. Two of the strongest supporters of U.S. involvement were the Washington Post and the New York Times. For, instance, "Bush has decided to order the attack after receiving the latest intelligence reports that prove that Iraq possesses weapons of mass destruction, hoping to decapitate the leadership of the country at the beginning of the war" (Abramson, 2008). A poll published by the U.S. newspaper The Washington Post and ABC News said that nearly three in four Americans (74%) at that time supported the war in Iraq. By mid 2003, the same newspaper coverage remained subordinate to the ...