Officials say Isis produces 38 unique pieces of "high-quality propaganda" every day.
High-quality propaganda used to require good cartoonists; now anyone can make and disseminate slick images.
According to recent research from the Quilliam Foundation, the counter-extremism thinktank, Islamic State's high-quality propaganda is disseminated widely by a network of supporters and sympathisers worldwide.
Many political conventions, complete with Hollywood-quality propaganda videos streaming on jumbo-trons in professional sports arenas, are designed to inspire cults of personality.
It proudly produces HD-quality propaganda videos where prisoners of war and civilians are mercilessly slaughtered and cultural heritage of the Mesopotamia region, as old as history itself, is destroyed with a sense of duty.
And the production quality of propaganda videos has improved dramatically.
Say this for Vladimir Putin: the quality of the propaganda coming out of the Kremlin has dramatically improved since the days of Stalin, the Comintern, and Pravda.
By Hendrik Hertzberg September 12 , 2013Say this for Vladimir Putin: the quality of the propaganda coming out of the Kremlin has dramatically improved since the days of Stalin, the Comintern, and Pravda.
The introduction to the Methuen edition of his letters includes an encomium to the GDR, "a country of many fine qualities which Western propaganda has done much to obscure".
It's easy to train people to use a certain vocabulary -- for instance, calling people "customers" to whom we offer "products" -- but this doesn't really change the culture or the awareness of the clinicians.... There's lip service to quality and, goodness knows, propaganda, but real commitment is in short supply...
But the deadening, propaganda-like quality of HRC showcases why she never gets credit.
