Well yes - everybody from the EFF to Karl Rove / Goebbels have used
basically the same techniques to do that .. if you are against it, you
call it propaganda, and if you're for it, you call it "spin",
"viewpoint", "PR" or whatever.

http://www.circleid.com/posts/eff_use_of_propaganda_karl_rove/

"But the most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success
unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly and with
unflagging attention. It must confine itself to a few points and repeat
them over and over. Here, as so often in this world, persistence is the
first and most important requirement for success.”

-- from “War Propaganda”, in volume 1, chapter 6 of Mein Kampf (1925),
by Adolph Hitler

shiv sastry wrote:

> Rishabh - this is correct in absolute terms, and it works well in scientific 
> and technical circles. But not so in political/religious circles. For various 
> reasons I have been in the business of refuting or supporting various 
> articles or viewpoints for several years now and I have found that facts (or 
> indeed fiction) can be used in clever and not so clever ways depending on who 
> is using them (i.e author dependent or language-skill dependent)


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