There are many other ways in which language can be used to manipulate an audience. one obvious way is to simply lie.

Exposure as a propagandist is fatal to the would-be persuader.

Down to the present day the luminous image of democracy has often served as a pretext for the most undemocratic actions.

Since the time of Plato and Aristotle philosophers have had an interest in taking note of common fallacies in reasoning.

The best goal for propaganda analysis is to develop such an understanding of the phenomenon that it will no longer be profitable for people to engage in it.

It is true that advertising often gives information and is valuable for doing so, but some forms of advertising give precious little information, and even that little is wrong.

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