In modern times sound policy-making must often come to grips with numbers.

The specific media may change, but the principles of human nature have remained fairly constant over the millenia.

Anyone familiar with the marvels of the Worldwide Web can hardly fail to see that we have entered a new era in communications on a scale perhaps comparable to the invention of the Gutenberg press.

Once we recognize the power of propaganda, we need to ask whether its exercise is consistent with those democratic ideals to which lip-service is commonly accorded.

There is arguably something wrong with a method of persuasion that cannot pass the test of publicity.

In a general way, a major goal of the propagandist is to seek some kind of authoritative backing for the belief he or she is propagating.

When we look for propaganda, we have the obvious job of asking what messages are being propagated.