What is the difference between public relations a nd propaganda?

Answer 1

It depends on your point of view, some may think nothing, others will think everything;

Propaganda is a form of communication that is aimed at influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position so as to benefit oneself.

Public Relations: more or less is: a field concerned with maintaining a public image of whatever the PR firm represents, a firm, etc.

Answer 2

A protest is a usually peaceful gathering of people who want to voice a complaint or grievance about something. Propaganda is the spread of ideas for a cause through media, and it is often untruthful, or at least exaggerated.

Answer 3

Public relations are a company backing a cause like children's hospitals and attaching it to their image. Propaganda would be creating a false sense of lack to make people want to buy your product.

Answer 4

There is no black and white dividing line between them.

Publicity is making facts known and giving an opinion on those facts. You then hope that people will accept these opinions as facts as well.

Propaganda is giving an opinion that distorts peoples view of the facts. The most obvious use of propoganda is to repeat a lie until people start to question whether it is a lie or not.

Both rely on making people believe opinions about facts are actually facts themselves.

Answer 5

Sometimes none, sometimes its in the eye of the reader.

Generally private sector organization engage in advertising, public relations and "spin". Basically propaganda aimed at getting the public to agree with their side or a issue. When a government engages in public relations sometimes it classified as propaganda. Sometimes it's a very grey area. In some cases governments have used false or exaggerated information to inflame a populace to support a war effort or build public sentiment for or against an issue.

For example.. some early 1940's films actually included "speeches" about the need for everyone to pull together to fight the Nazi menace, that's probably propaganda although some would call it pr.

Answer 6

Public relations is the strategic management of communication between an organization and its stakeholders to build relationships and maintain a positive image. Propaganda, on the other hand, involves the dissemination of biased or misleading information to promote a particular ideology or agenda, often using manipulative techniques to influence public opinion. While public relations aims to establish trust and credibility, propaganda seeks to manipulate perceptions for a specific purpose.

Answer 7

In a word, truth. If what you're "spinning" has a solid basis in fact, you're doing PR. If not, it's propaganda. Plain and simple.

Answer 8

Propaganda has the objective of deceiving and/or manipulating the reader. News is expected to be unbiased for the purpose of informing the reader.