And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship.
Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.
At least in the West, politicians, corporations and media moguls can no longer take for granted their power to control the public discourse - and have it go unchallenged.
Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.
An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.
If we live in a world where information drives what we do, the information we get becomes the most important thing. The person who chooses that information has power.
Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.
Politicization - the shading of analysis to fit prevailing policy or politics - is the harshest criticism one can make of an intelligence organization. It strikes beyond questions of competence to the fundamental ethic of the enterprise, which is, or should be, truth telling.
The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief.
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