What's the difference between pamphleteer and propaganda?

Pamphleteer


Definition:

  • (n.) A writer of pamphlets; a scribbler.
  • (v. i.) To write or publish pamphlets.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A small clinic consisting of 1 room decorated with pamphlets against AIDS, malaria, and other diseases was managed by the chief primary health care (PHC) assistant named Joseph.
  • (2) Mainly though, the pamphlet – which you can read in its original form in the Women's Library in east London – is fulminating rightwingness, peppered with self-publicising, a proto-Melanie Phillips with an extra PhD.
  • (3) Jon Cruddas Sitting amid piles of policy papers and pamphlets, many of which were never adopted (to his intense frustration), the MP for Dagenham speaks of an existential threat to Labour unless it confronts the scale of its failure.
  • (4) It is permissible to have intercourse with the female slave who hasn’t reached puberty if she is fit for intercourse.” The pamphlet added that it was also permissible to buy, sell, or give as a gift female slaves, “for they are merely property, which can be disposed of”.
  • (5) The chancellor's position was not helped by the centre right Centre for Policy Studies which argued in a pamphlet on Monday that he would struggle to meet his deficit reduction plan, the cornerstone of the government's economic strategy.
  • (6) In a pamphlet to be published by the Lib Dem thinktank CentreForum, Burstow describes it as "an anomaly in our welfare system" and an ineffective way of targeting help.
  • (7) The intervention consisted of the practice receptionist giving female patients pamphlets about Papanicolaou smear-tests and the general practitioner offering a Papanicolaou smear-test.
  • (8) The Lib Dems are sending out pamphlets for next month's European elections showing Clegg as the man trying to stop Farage.
  • (9) The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) of the Public Health Service made public health history in 1988 by mailing the pamphlet, "Understanding AIDS," to every household in the United States.
  • (10) Javid wrote about his early life for a pamphlet with a foreword by Major, which spotlighted the working-class backgrounds of more than a dozen Conservative MPs.
  • (11) From the early pamphleteers – Tom Paine for one – to the muckrakers who fought injustice such as Nellie Bly; from Rachel Carson's Silent Spring to Ralph Nader's Unsafe At Any Speed ; from Mother Jones to the Pentagon papers, the words that shook America mostly came from passionate reporters with a cause to champion.
  • (12) A questionnaire distributed to 500 patients, answered by 48.2%, showed that most patients liked to receive the pamphlets and 85.5% found them useful.
  • (13) When Michoacán's governor obliquely blamed the caballeros for the murder, they responded with banners and pamphlets that denied the charge.
  • (14) Information pamphlets for certain drugs on prescription have been distributed to patients by pharmacies since 1985.
  • (15) That is partly why we published out pamphlet today because there is intense frustration across the university and college community – we are not prepared to just allow the debate around universities to go nowhere.
  • (16) They claim in their pamphlet that "a quarter of station staff could go" and warned of the consequences of "sharing afternoon programmes on BBC Radio Nottingham, and having just one programme for the whole of England after 7pm".
  • (17) Thus you can witness unironical celebrations of Rand Paul as an original thinker, despite the fact that his every core policy proposal reads like a distorted Xerox of an older Xerox of his father’s decades of rant-pamphleteering.
  • (18) The pamphlet scored a reading ease grade of 45, corresponding to what is considered difficult reading and at a level commonly found in academic journals.
  • (19) Those techniques were used to analyze a pamphlet designed for patient education by the American Academy of Dermatology.
  • (20) We sent a pamphlet that explained the program to 1568 people who had undergone apheresis and asked them to reply, stating their interest.

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.