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Originally Posted by YoDude View Post
I don't know how you're using отдел агитации и пропаганды (agitprop) or to whom you're applying it to.
Agitprop ultimately means agitation propoganda, and I'm applying it to you!

Despite its dramatic/communist associations, any propoganda that attempts to sway opinion by means of creating dissention and rift in a way that gives the appearance of being merely unintentional, is agitprop. Hence, I'm using it here in the more modern and common sense of the term, and not the oft-seen "first dictionary definition" sense.

Actually, it dismays me that the word doesn't get more usage, seeing as how much agitprop we are all bombarded with in our time (I'm a North American, so I speak primarily from a US perspective, but I presume all people are subject to it in this day and age of media saturation).

Here's a link or two to get you more formally acquainted with this fine word, one which you otherwise are already familiar with, so it seems!

http://www.websters-online-dictionar.../agitprop.html
(check the "specialty definition" - there's nothing really "special" about it in this day and age, though, but then again, that's probably just the way The Man likes it!)
http://www.wordnik.com/words/agitprop/examples
(Some - admittedly lame - examples)

And as a bonus, please let me remind you that I also associated your original post with the term stealth marketing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stealth_marketing

Happy propagandizing, friend!
8^)
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Last edited by oldpmaguy; 2010-05-16 at 06:29.