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Graphic: TV Feeds You Garbage
Background Information
This is an image that can easily be classified as propaganda, even though the message of it is against propaganda. I am unsure of where this image originated, or who created it. A friend of mine found it.
Technique Used
Simplify Ideas
This is propaganda because
The image demands that we reconsider television as a medium that destroys our creativity and turns us all into mindless androids, which is an oversimplification of our relationship with media. What is worrisome is that it uses propaganda to try and dismantle other propaganda, without any hint of irony.
Name calling technique
Effective
Fear
not effective
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