Propaganda (Earth-2042)



"Your weapons in this war are starships, and guns, and armor. My weapon in this war is words. And even more important than words are images. Pictures depicting an artistic representation of reality. Facts are flexible, and these graphics point to the truth of which you speak even if they do not precisely portray them."

- Michael Sullivan, OII propagandist

Propaganda is the dissemination of information, especially of a biased nature, for the purpose of promoting or injuring a political institution, cause or point of view. Propaganda can take many forms, from adverts, posters, films, and audio recordings to name a few.

Through several techniques, propaganda tend to imply connections between two separate things, whether they be true or not. Examples of such techniques were readily found within the Galactic Empire's Office of Imperial Intelligence (previously the Office of Naval Intelligence of the Galactic Republic), who during the entirety of the Galactic Civil War, sought to countermand the influence of the Alliance to Restore the Republic and eventually its sucessor state, the New Republic. One poster of a New Republic soldier in the foreground, with the shadow of a Hutt in the background suggested several things. Such as implying that behind the occupying forces of the New Republic, crime and anarchy followed, as well as a deep rooted xenophobic ideology, and that the New Republic was somehow connected with, or perhaps even working with or no better than the Hutt Clan. Likewise, a poster of dirty, ill-kept New Republic troops with flamethrowers burning down an Imperial Academy with screaming children in the windows, implied that the New Republic had no morality, and were no better than drunken thugs and terrorists.

Source

 * https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Propaganda