What's the difference between hype and propaganda?

Hype


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The hype of thewhole week blew up in one overreaction from me.
  • (2) Hopefully a dramatic, seven games series that lives up to all of the advance hype.
  • (3) During his MIPCOM keynote, he also took a pop at Rising Star, a much-hyped format that saw a wall lowered to reveal contestants to the studio audience if enough people voted at home.
  • (4) Derbies generally struggle to live up to their billing and this one had no chance of matching the hype and hope that went before, yet until Scholes applied his splendid coup de grâce it bore an unexpected resemblance to a mere end-of-season game.
  • (5) We played to the hype and hated each other and for what?"
  • (6) Just as Hernández's hot start at Manchester United has regressed into a more modest level of production, McInerney's failed to fulfill the hype.
  • (7) Sunderland and Middlesbrough in Premier League peril Read more Karanka is not alone in observing that “when Gastón plays well, it makes a big difference to us” but acknowledges he has never quite fulfilled the hype which accompanied his £12m move from Bologna to Southampton four years ago.
  • (8) While many fans did not buy too much into the patriotic hype around their team’s chances in the tournament the ending just seemed sadistic.
  • (9) A senior MoD source said: “Despite the continuing conspiracy theories and associated hype in the media, the reality is that there are no US Remotely Piloted Air System support facilities operating anywhere in the UK.” But the human rights group Reprieve said that the job specifications indicated UK complicity in the US drone programme.
  • (10) These two cars will be followed in March 2011 by the heavily hyped Nissan Leaf , a five-seater mass market electric car capable of running 100 miles between charges.
  • (11) In my job as chief prosecutor, where my focus was on reviewing cases for potential criminal prosecution, it was obvious the label was mostly hype.
  • (12) A few months later he was a member of the US senate and by early 2006 he was firmly hyped as the man destined to save the Democratic party.
  • (13) Sky Sports always seems convinced it is world class in at least two disciplines – broadcasting and marketing – hyping what it has to the maximum.
  • (14) But if you look through all the hype it is clear they do not have a structured plan for how they would run the country, keeping the debt down and tackling unemployment."
  • (15) He was afraid his statement would end up in the press and was concerned about "media hype".
  • (16) Northern Ireland has moved on and I believe that all the talk about a ‘hard border’ is hyped up for party political purposes.” To help Elliott retain the seat for unionism, the Democratic Unionist party has stepped aside to give him a free run.
  • (17) At least director JJ Abrams had a sense of humour about the hype machine when he teased a "sneak peek" of a scanty three frames of Star Trek Into Darkness on Conan O'Brien.
  • (18) The company could once rely on growing sales for its hit products even after their hype-fueled launches.
  • (19) But the gags mask a nervousness: 'People are worried to death before he even throws it,' says Pulis; 'Probably because it's been hyped up so much,' Delap responds.
  • (20) Fact is they are fooling the fans fighting all these bums on the back of my name to hype his fights and profile saying I’m running scared.” Eddie Hearn (@EddieHearn) made but enough of the insults.

Propaganda


Definition:

  • (n.) A congregation of cardinals, established in 1622, charged with the management of missions.
  • (n.) The college of the Propaganda, instituted by Urban VIII. (1623-1644) to educate priests for missions in all parts of the world.
  • (n.) Hence, any organization or plan for spreading a particular doctrine or a system of principles.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A new propaganda video by Islamic State featuring the British photojournalist John Cantlie, in which he says it is the “last film in this series”, has appeared online.
  • (2) Russian anti-gay law prompts rise in homophobic violence Read more “The law against gay propaganda legitimised violence against LGBT people, and they now are banning street actions under it,” Klimova said.
  • (3) Journalists should never be a propaganda arm of any government – not in peace and never in war.
  • (4) North Korea has produced tons of propaganda films that portray America’s destruction.
  • (5) A week after the New York Film Critics Circle gave the movie its top award, a liberal political commentator wrote: "I'm betting that Dick Cheney will love [the film, which is] a far, far cry from the rousing piece of pro-Obama propaganda that some conservatives feared it would be."
  • (6) When war broke out he was there again, scribbling anti-British propaganda for Coughlin's journal.
  • (7) "Sometimes a handshake is just a handshake, but when the leader of the free world shakes the bloody hand of a ruthless dictator like Raúl Castro , it becomes a propaganda coup for the tyrant," said Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the Republican Congress member in Florida, told the US secretary of state, John Kerry.
  • (8) The Isis propaganda war: a hi-tech media jihad Read more Isis is innovative.
  • (9) Under Russia's anti-gay propaganda law, anyone promoting "non-traditional sexual relations" to minors face fines of up to 5,000 roubles (£100), while businesses and schools could get fines up to 500,000 roubles (£10,000).
  • (10) It would also be a propaganda victory for Moscow, which launched a campaign to safeguard Assad’s rule last October.
  • (11) The first time I heard about legislation banning " homosexual propaganda ", I thought it was funny.
  • (12) The Iraqi government needs to “mock and disprove” Islamic State’s online propaganda more effectively and more quickly Malcolm Turnbull has told an elite audience in Washington, saying he will raise the problem when he meets US president Barack Obama.
  • (13) In the letter, Gadahn – who the White House has announced was killed in a US drone stike in January – told the al-Qaida leader that Benjamin Franklin had never been a president of the United States and warned that if he or Ayman al-Zawahiri, Bin Laden’s deputy, made the mistake in propaganda speeches, their credibility would suffer.
  • (14) The tone of Kim’s comments, which sought to glorify him and justify the test, is typical of state media propaganda.
  • (15) South Korea has said it will resume the cross-border propaganda broadcasts that Pyongyang considers an act of war, as fellow US ally Japan condemned North Korea’s claim to have successfully tested a hydrogen bomb as a “serious threat” to its national security.
  • (16) I, along with many others, am tired of this toxic propaganda.
  • (17) Bensouda, 50, who has served as Moreno-Ocampo's deputy, added: "With due respect, what offends me most when I hear criticisms about the so-called African bias is how quick we are to focus on the words and propaganda of a few powerful, influential individuals and to forget about the millions of anonymous people that suffer from these crimes … because all the victims are African victims.
  • (18) But those who know the Londoner – who was born Siddhartha Dhar and changed his name after converting from Hinduism to Islam – struggle to agree on whether he can be identified as Isis’s latest propaganda figure.
  • (19) Jared Genser Germany went public with its anger about Beijing’s handling of Liu’s case on Monday, accusing Chinese security services of leaking surveillance footage of Liu being visited by a German doctor in order to bolster a propaganda campaign pushing the idea that the dissident was too ill to be evacuated from China.
  • (20) According to a secret cable titled "David Letterman: Agent of Influence", they have been proving more effective than Washington's main propaganda tool, the US-funded al-Hurra TV news channel.