In his dystopian novel 1984, George Orwell foresaw the dangers of a centralized clearinghouse for official propaganda named "The Ministry of Truth" in which the imperative to promote veracity is perverted into a factory for manufacturing fiction in the tradition of Stalin.
He chose Propaganda, a name derived from his favourite band, a German electro-pop outfit, popular in the 80s.
Or, consider the pair of Party propaganda chiefs — named Zhang and Zhang — who lost more than $12 million in Chongqing public funds at the Lisboa Casino in 2004.
At one point, Seth Rogen's North Korean love interest, a propaganda official named Sook (played by Diana Bang) tells how Party officials came into her classroom when she was a schoolgirl and selected her for the personal staff of the Kim family.
The following officers commanded the service: The work of Coastal Command was immortalised in a 1942 wartime propaganda documentary named Coastal Command with a score by Ralph Vaughan Williams.
A Foreign Office spokesman said the video was "Daesh propaganda", using another name for the terror group, and added that the government was examining its content.
Working under the name Propaganda Snowboards, which must amuse the English-speaking village elders, they are now heading into their sixth winter, yet are still more than happy to host you up the mountain on a daily basis at no extra cost.
In addition, a secular religion would use all the tools of art in order to create an effective kind of propaganda in the name of kindness and virtue.
According to one official newspaper editor who refused to be named, propaganda authorities now calculate that confronted with a public controversy, local officials have a window of about two hours to block information and flood the Web with their own line before the reaction of citizens is beyond control.
The area to be wrested from them, according to one option, would include Dabiq, north of Aleppo, a town where some of the movement's ideology was formulated and after which its propaganda magazine is named; Manbij, one of the first cities to fall to the extremists; and al-Bab, which had successively fought first the regime, then al-Nusra and Isis, at great cost to its residents.
In an article on its propaganda website, eerily named "The Source," the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transit Authority (LACMTA) boasts: "It's official: Measure M heads to November ballot".
