"Naturally, it will be perceived as propaganda directed at our population," Mr. Kotenyov said.
Many media experts say Chinese news agencies, though improving, lack credible and objective reporting and are widely perceived to be propaganda vehicles for the Chinese government.
This week, Christian Bale found himself getting unexpected red-carpet questions about whether his new movie, "The Flowers of War," China's most expensive production, might be perceived as a propaganda piece.
Part of the problem is that Studio B was perceived as a propaganda organ for Mr. Draskovic, much as state television serves the interests of Slobodan Milosevic, the Yugoslav president, and did not serve as a true public-interest station.
The Persian BBC is run largely by Iranians born after the revolution and raised in the Islamic republic, who began their careers as journalists in Iran and left only after their papers were closed; it is perceived not as propaganda, but a reliable source of information, quite unlike the state-run stations that continue to voice the government's myopic denials of the reality on the ground.
It's important to emphasize that I am not talking about government activity: messages coming from a government, any government, will always be perceived as tendentious propaganda.
To say aloud that European anti-Semitism, which made the Holocaust possible, is still shaping the way Jews are perceived; Arab anti-Israel propaganda has joined hands with it and found a home in the embattled Muslim world.
The Israeli government perceived the threat to its propaganda line even before the show was aired and called the top brass at CBS to demand that its representative Ambassador Michael Oren be invited to participate, and offer the government's rebuttal.
The mobile van, in particular, was perceived as a tool for propaganda used by politicians and therefore not ideal for improving people's understanding on an important issue such as the CHI scheme.
Compliance with this Rule implies avoiding the display of any sign, banner, poster, piece of equipment or clothing which could be perceived as any kind of demonstration or propaganda.
Besides its claimed religious mandate to condemn Western culture, the regime sought to rid itself of what it perceived to be a "soft war" of propaganda being waged on its rule.
