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agitprop
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synonyms: yellow journalism, ~newspeak, ~demagoguery, ~prolefeed ???
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Definition:(uncountable) political propaganda disseminated through art, literature, drama, etc., especially Communist propaganda(countable) An organization or person engaged in disseminating such propaganda.text from Wiktionary, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike
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it had been noticed that the tendency to use abbreviations of this kind was most marked in totalitarian countries and totalitarian organisations. Examples were such words as Nazi, Gestapo, Comintern, Inprecor, Agitprop. In the beginning the practice had been adopted as it were instinctively, but in Newspeak it was used with a conscious purpose.
George Orwell. 1984 (1949)
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Essentially agitprop presented as news, the program is fueling speculation that Mr. Trump wants to start a network, purveying news and opinion tailored to the candidate’s worldview.
Michael M. Grynbaum, The New York Times, 26 Oct. 2016
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