What's the difference between propaganda and propagandist?
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.
Propagandist
Definition:
(n.) A person who devotes himself to the spread of any system of principles.
Example Sentences:
(1) I believe that truth sets man free.” It was a curious stance for someone who spent many years undercover as a counter-espionage informant, a government propagandist, and unofficial asset of the Central Intelligence Agency.
(2) Pallo Jordan , the ANC's chief propagandist in exile during the apartheid era, made no effort to hide his emotions.
(3) Also killed was Samir Khan, a Pakistani-American who was a propagandist for Yemen's al-Qaida branch: al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula.
(4) I wouldn’t consider myself a propagandist but at the end of it the reality was that I was working for Putin.
(5) They do not step up to defend the government, its leaders, and their policies from criticism, no matter how vitriolic; indeed, they seem to avoid controversial issues entirely,” the study’s authors write of members of China’s “enormous workforce” of online propagandists.
(6) The Kuwaiti-born Briton known as Jihadi John was a cruel and violent propagandist, whose chilling video appearances on YouTube strongly suggested he was responsible for the brutal killings of several western hostages, including those of the two British aid workers, David Haines and Alan Henning.
(7) Tudor propagandists in the 16th century portrayed him in a negative light.
(8) He had also grown disillusioned with his own role as a propagandist, his contorted attempt to distinguish between 'honest' and 'dishonest' propaganda evidently having failed.
(9) On a wet afternoon in Eastwood cemetery how unlikely this hope seems: that a working-class movement, powerful for a time in Glasgow, could take on the nation states of Europe and defeat their crowned heads, bureaucracies, treaty obligations, propagandists and armies.
(10) Talk to a young person for more than five minutes and any government propagandist would realise it's not that they don't care about politics, it's that caring in any organised way feels futile, and their input feels unwanted.
(11) While Kandari was never formally accused of wrongdoing and denied both involvement in terrorism and any affiliations with terrorists, the board called him an al-Qaida recruiter and propagandist “who probably served as Osama bin Laden’s spiritual adviser”.
(12) Nor are the claims of the Syrian propagandists entirely lacking in truth.
(13) Elizabeth May, veteran head of the Canadian Green party claims to have read all the emails and declared: "How dare the world's media fall into the trap set by contrarian propagandists without reading the whole set?"
(14) Republicans and Democrats in the House failed to renew it today,” the president said, “and that inaction will directly hurt about 100,000 workers and their communities annually if those Members of Congress don’t reconsider.” The GOP has long strongly supported free trade – one Republican congressman, David Schweikert of Arizona, even compared fast-track opponents to Nazi propagandists, saying “Goebbels would be proud of them” on the floor of the House on Friday.
(15) But the state-run studio, which employs 4,000 people, is no stranger to creating gigantic works of art: its artists have built almost every statue, sculpture and piece of propagandist art currently on show North Korea.
(16) Several rivals can fight over certain themes within a person’s consciousness.” I had always imagined the phrase “information war” to refer to some sort of geopolitical debate, with Russian propagandists on one side and western propagandists on the other, both trying to convince everyone in the middle that their side was right.
(17) Had I dreamed up a plot of such cruel folly and heartlessness as May has provided, it would have been dismissed as too far-fetched, even propagandist.
(18) Put another way, the term at this point seems to have no function other than propagandistically and legally legitimizing the violence of western states against Muslims while delegitimizing any and all violence done in return to those states.
(19) Tudor propagandists, especially Shakespeare, ensured Richard has been seen as hunchbacked for centuries.
(20) He is silent on accusations made against him that he associates with antisemitic propagandists.