Propaganda+Analysis

In class yesterday you learned about 8 popular types of propaganda. This morning we looked at campaign ads for bias as well as the types of propaganda they employed. Your task now is to do the following:

Work with one other person in class and analyze political ads for bias and propaganda techniques. (An example is at the bottom of the page)

You can choose to find videos from the Living Room Candidate (has every television ad in pre-2012 campaign history) or a YouTube channel that doesn't have as many (but sometimes Living Room is a little slow to load...). I would try Living Room first and see what happens. The directions for Living Room are on the left, YouTube on the right of the directions page.

If you do not finish your work, you will have a little time on Monday to wrap things up!

Have fun investigating ads!

Examples:

//**Living Room Candidate**//: media type="custom" key="12412798" Lyndon Johnson (D) ran this ad in 1964 against Barry Goldwater. Propaganda used: Assertion: Love each other (and vote for Johnson) or die. It is unlikely we would die if we didn't vote Johnson. Also possible: Glittering Generalities: could we be at more risk of Goldwater were elected, possible, but to say the world would end seems drastic.

YouTube (only 1 slide in the example, you'll have 3...)

media type="custom" key="12412928"

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