The phrase "propaganda needs" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used to express the idea that propaganda requires or demands something. For example, "The success of the political campaign relied heavily on the skillful use of propaganda needs such as emotional appeal and biased messaging."
Propaganda needs to be refuted not censored.
This is exactly the reason why hateful propaganda needs to be challenged robustly head-on.
Instead, the Chavista propaganda machine crammed the events of that weekend into a Bay of Pigs template that has little to do with the historical record and everything to do with the propaganda needs of the regime.
At first the film seems like an unholy alliance of a Hollywood go-for-it formula film and the propaganda needs of the Vichy government; and on paper it does sound like a flat illustration of the Vichy motto "Travail, famille, patrie" ("Work, family, homeland").
However, even after Harlan rewrote the original script, the result was not antisemitic enough to suit Goebbels' propaganda needs so he personally intervened in the editing process to the point of dropping some scenes and rewriting others including making a substantial change to the film's ending to show Süß as humbled rather than defiant.
No daft ceremonies, no patriotism or propaganda needed.
Of course, propaganda need not be wholly accurate to be effective.
Like much of Powell's wartime work, from "The Spy in Black" (1939) to "A Canterbury Tale" (1944), "A Matter of Life and Death" seems to have been made in response to a particular propaganda need — in this case to smooth over the strained relations between Britons and Yanks that had arisen during the war's four years of forced cohabitation.
Because the understanding of the masses "is feeble," he went on, effective propaganda needed to be boiled down to a few slogans that should be "persistently repeated until the very last individual has come to grasp the idea that has been put forward".
For every terrorist we kill, Al-Qaeda and the Taliban will simply have their "web and media specialists" produce the necessary propaganda needed to either gain new recruits, or merge with smaller groups.
"The propaganda machine needs to find a new way to persuade people".
