Talk:Propaganda techniques

While it's possible that "Logical Fallacies" might merit a topic of its own, for now, in the context of SourceWatch, I don't see that it requires separation from "Propaganda techniques"; though ... a cause ... of course ... may arise ;-} -- Maynard 23:04 30 Mar 2003 (EST)

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I removed reference to 'spambot' as a propaganda technique, based upon this common definition of spambot: A spambot is a robot that specializes in gathering email addresses for a spammer to use. It basically follows links and saves any email addresses it finds as it goes along. A spambot usually gathers emails from the web or from usenet, but may also gather it from other sources.[1]
--Maynard 16:13 12 Jun 2003 (EDT)

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Planting press article" was duplicated, so I removed one of the duplicates.

"Disinformation" had numerous grammar errors that I corrected, but the second paragraph is a jumble that mystified me. It makes no sense as is. Anyone have a clue?

I don't understand the "push poll" entry at all. Should it be revised?

Debbie 01 Feb 2004

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What about 'astroturfing' as a propganda technique? I see you have an article about it on the site but it's not in the list on this page.

Anonymous

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Don't know where to put this:

A search on "smear" brings up both "attack ad" and "attack ads" - any reason for the duplication? The text is not the same. One is in Propaganda Techniques -don't know how to tell where the other is. Should they be combined?

Also, the search does not turn up "Bush administration smear campaigns"

Debbie 12 Feb 2004

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Hi, would it be okay if I tried to organize the list more hierarchically? I'm not sure exactly where everything would go, but I have some of my own ideas and they're sort of variations on certain propaganda themes, and I don't really want to add them by themselves. Plus, the page is getting rather long. The other thing is I don't want to screw it up, since I'm not exactly sure what I'm doing.

Ben (newbie) 20 Apr 2004