Propaganda

Everyone has encountered some kind of propaganda in their life, from magazines,books,posters and T.V. When I read magazines I see propaganda everywhere. For example beauty, The media portrays an image of what a women should look like; tall blonde and a size two. This is what is so called the "American beauty" even though that their are millions of wemon in the world that do not have this image, it dose not matter because These woman are what sell magazines covers. This is what the people in hollywood think is the classic beauty.

When you look at T.V and you see a air Jordan commercial you think of the slogan Be Like Mike! They are trying to target the audience of all teenage boys who wants to play basketball like Micheal Jordan. My older brother is a example of how if propaganda is used right, you can influence anyone. My brother has every pair of Jordan's ever released and he still collects them as a grown man. Little dose he know that the propaganda in these air Jordan's commercial has encoded in his mind since he was a little boy that Air Jordan's are the definition of what "cool" is. When I was in high school the majority of boys had Jordan's and if you were a girl you had to have owned at least one pair of Jordan's including me.

When you look at shows like the Brady Bunch your looking at what's supposed to be the average "American Family" the Brady bunch never tackled issues like the usage of drugs and alcohol, because the idea of that show was that the Brady Bunch be viewed as good,clean, and innocent. After that show you are left with the impression that this is what every family should be like. The truth is that everything is not black and white; there are always shades of gray. You have to be living under a rock to not experience or seen some type of propaganda