Propoganda is an instrument of policy that governments use to influence a particular

group, therefore maiking that group think what they want them to think, do what they

want them to do etc. Although the use of propoganda greatly increased during the

twentieth century through the use of mass media (especialy through the invention of

radio and television) it is not a new phenomenon. Propoganda earliest use was in used

connection with religous missionairy activities (indeed this is where the word

propoganda was first used). On of the earliest users of propoganda was Saint Paul,

who established the first Christian churches in Asia Minor, Greece, and Italy. It was

Pope Gregory XV who established the Congregation of Propoganda in 1622, hoping

that it would help direct the activities of the Roman Catholic Church throughout

Propoganda, before the nineteenth century, was not usually aimed at the population,

but at ruling elites. Policy was made by the ruling elites, normally the monarch, the

royal court and their diplomats who did not have to worry about foreign public

response - "they had to impress their foreign counterparts, not foreign populations".1

Britian ravaged by World War I and the economic depression that the government (a

victims. Therefore, during war, it is often the case for the media to dub the particular

feelings exist."4 It is clear that the Nazis new that people were more suseptable in a

attempts at influencing Nato members wit propoganda. For example, western reporters

their population that the other was evil, therefore justifying the continuation of war.

controlled and therefore would always tow the official, governments line. However,

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