Camira raised her hand, ignoring all the cat drama. She had enough to worry about. "Propaganda is the dissemination of information aimed at influencing the opinions or behaviors of large numbers of people. As opposed to impartially providing information, propaganda in its most basic sense presents information in order to influence its audience. Propaganda often presents facts selectively (thus lying by omission) to encourage a particular synthesis, or gives loaded messages in order to produce an emotional rather than rational response to the information presented. The desired result is a change of the attitude toward the subject in the target audience to further a political agenda." she took a deep breath. "Basically, Propaganda is the deliberate, systematic attempt to shape perceptions, manipulate cognitions, and direct behavior to achieve a response that furthers the desired intent of the propagandist. That would be the short version, at least. Basic techniques include ad hominem, ad nauseum, Appeal to fear, authority, or predjudice, the "Black and White Fallacy", and the use of beautiful people." Oh yes. father had given her many a lesson on this subject.