Its huge, sneaky, manipulative, a bad influence on us all, is armed and dangerous, and committing mental abuse. This menace is everywhere: in magazines, television, commercials and news. It is guilty for misleading people, scaring people into buying their product, and making people feel like they aren’t good enough. Everyone is a victim especially those who are vulnerable to their insecurities. It preys on the emotionally unstable and the young and naïve. Be on the look out for the media.

Propaganda has been around for hundreds of years. In 1914 propaganda was how the government would get recruits into World War I, by distorting the truth, understating the number of deaths and the risks, and patriotism, which gave a false hope. They did this through advertisements expressed by war heroes. Propaganda has evolved into what is today’s media. It has the same purpose to advocate, all the same, through advertisements but instead of war heroes it is now celebrities and instead of war it is for different causes