There are many different authorities who make knowledge claims. What criteria do you use to distinguish between knowledge, opinion and propaganda?
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 02:03:59
Category: / Literature / Creative Writing
Length: 5 pages (1313 words)
Category: / Literature / Creative Writing
Length: 5 pages (1313 words)
In our society, with the mass media around us, and with many other sources, we are surrounded by different kinds of information. Then, how much information do we get everyday, from seeing something to actually learning something from the school to listening to a president talking about a country? And how much opinions do you hear, and what kind of propaganda did you observe, and how much of them have become your knowledge? And how …
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…changed by another "truer" fact. As for opinion, you don't really have right or wrong, better or worse. Opinion is something your own, others don't have to agree with you. You can be convinced by another opinion, but others can't say "your opinion is wrong, you have to correct it." In order to convince an opinion to others, people you propaganda. And this way people can be convinced to have a certain kind of opinion.
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