This is accomplished by the intentional exclusion of facts that are objectionable to the desired conclusion (Standler). Some questions are so multifaceted and complex that no one can understand them without considering a wide variety of evidence. One collection of facts could make us feel one way and another collection could make us feel just the opposite. For example, a candidate could appear like a legislative achiever if you say, “Representative Smith introduced more new bills than any other member of the Congress,” and neglect to mention that most of them were preposterous. Senator Smith engages in card stacking when he talks about creating jobs without mentioning the cost to the taxpayers. He says he wants to help his countrymen keep their jobs, but doesn’t mention that the corporations are overseas. This device of propaganda is not untrue, but then again it is not the whole truth. There are three propagandist methods used to influence thinking: appealing to our emotions, distracting our attention, and misleading logic that appears to be reasonable and encourages the people to get onto the bandwagon
This is accomplished by the intentional exclusion of facts that are objectionable to the desired conclusion (Standler). Some questions are so multifaceted and complex that no one can understand them without considering a wide variety of evidence. One collection of facts could make us feel one way and another collection could make us feel just the opposite. For example, a candidate could appear like a legislative achiever if you say, “Representative Smith introduced more new bills than any other member of the Congress,” and neglect to mention that most of them were preposterous. Senator Smith engages in card stacking when he talks about creating jobs without mentioning the cost to the taxpayers. He says he wants to help his countrymen keep their jobs, but doesn’t mention that the corporations are overseas. This device of propaganda is not untrue, but then again it is not the whole truth. There are three propagandist methods used to influence thinking: appealing to our emotions, distracting our attention, and misleading logic that appears to be reasonable and encourages the people to get onto the bandwagon