Definition:
The dictionary definition of propaganda defines the term as information that is presented (usually) in a misleading nature in order to publicize or vouch for a certain viewpoint. There is a strong negative connotation with the term and it is mostly referred to information that is biased and intended to support a specific claim over another.
Example:
Any politically charged topic will have some examples of propaganda. Political ad campaigns in which a candidate mentions the voting history of his or her opponent may qualify as propaganda; for example, "S/he voted to raise taxes this many times" without giving any information regarding the circumstances in which they voted is obviously used to highlight the initially negative view of having to pay taxes.
Anti-vaxination is almost entirely propaganda in that it's about persuasion through fear and misleading or incorrect data.
Excerpt from reading:
This comes from the fourth segment regarding the importance to analyze a rhetor according to the time period of the object under analysis rather than what is available in the time of the critic.Here, propaganda is listed alongside other details concerning the popular theories and rhetoricians, illustrating its use as a rhetorical tool, albeit it a more dishonest one considering its uses.
“The principle means that the
student of an early nineteenth-century movement will ground his judgments in
the theories of Blair and Campbell; that a critic of a movement occurring
within the last thirty years, on the other hand will operate within the theoretical
atmosphere created by latter-day rhetoricians; that he will acknowledge the presence
of the Propagandist, and the various devices of propaganda, in the theoretical atmosphere
of the times”
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