Propaganda During The Cold War

Today’s society is often centered around television, advertisements, internet and other various publications. All these forms of communication can be used by propaganda. Propaganda is “ideas or statements that are often false or exaggerated and that are spread in order to help a cause, a political leader, a government, etc” (Merriam-Webster Dictionary). Propaganda is used for many different situations especially when it comes to international communications. When there became increasing influences of globalization, the demand for international communication became essential. With any communication there comes propaganda, there is no way to escape it. Propaganda has played a huge role in the history of international communication, whether it

The Cold War propaganda motives were extremely influential to the development of communication research in America. Media coverage of the Cold War was primarily scripted and used various types of propaganda. The Cold War is sometimes described as the battle of propaganda between two super powers. The Soviet Union and America consistently threatened each other with techniques of different propaganda used primarily to scare the general public into thinking one country was more powerful. Media propaganda strategies were used as a primary tool against the enemy. There was a critical shift in the way propaganda techniques were used by the United States after the Cold War. In the reading, “International communication: shifting paradigms, theories and foci of interest” it states that the Cold War influenced, “International political and cultural organizations such as the United Nations and the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation further contributed to international debates on communication issues”. Very crucial research programs were created and funded by the US government that was imperative for communication