Ria Novosti, a state-news agency, which sheltered loyal but liberal-minded journalists, was purged and turned into a blunt propaganda instrument.
The party was not only a permanent means of contact between the people and party leaders but also a propaganda instrument.
At age 6, Elian clearly cannot fully comprehend the issues swirling about him, and using him as a propaganda instrument is offensive.
Emphasis on the personality of the emperor (extended sometimes to empresses, sons, or deceased members of the imperial house) was a powerful propaganda instrument in a coinage that circulated throughout a vast empire.
The station's editors say their detour into American news coverage is no cold-war-style propaganda instrument, but rather an effort to improve ratings for the channel to better tell stories about Russia.
And to a significant extent, Radio Liberty, which for a long time was a journalistic organisation, has become a propaganda instrument," Babitsky claimed in an interview in Donetsk recently.
"Rifaat al-Assad is a multibillionare who lives abroad, who has properties everywhere and who has above all a television station that he uses as a propaganda instrument," Mr. Rouleau said.
Others saved it, and after a thunderstorm of vandalism (as when the page was replaced with "I hate Wikipedia, its a far-left propaganda instrument, some far-left gangs control it"), Mzoli's is now a model piece, spiky with press citations.
He lamented that the studio, built in 1937 by Mussolini as a propaganda instrument, is too often seen as a relic, fettered to Fellini and his peers: "It should be seen as a current place, full of people who will be in the cinema tomorrow, not decades ago.
