Here is your goal for this assignment: Evaluate an editorial to decide if it uses positive or negative propaganda

Internalizing Ideas. Often you may internalize, or apply to your own life, the information you read or learn. You have been studying propaganda. What have you learned about propaganda? Do you see propaganda used around you? Do you buy things because of propaganda? As you consider these questions, you are internalizing. The following activity will give you another opportunity to internalize.

Choose an editorial from a magazine or newspaper that states the author's position on a particular issue. Decide if it uses positive or negative propaganda by asking yourself the four questions listed below:

1. What does the author want me to do or to buy?
2. What good will I receive from following the author's suggestions?
3. Why does he want me to follow this suggestion: for his good, for my good, or for the benefit of many others?
4. Will I be going against any of my beliefs in responding positively towards the propaganda?

Write a paragraph describing how the editorial uses propaganda. Include your answers to the above questions and how you came to a decision about the positive or negative effects of this example of propaganda.