title: Know Your Enemy
abstract: Perhaps the most outstanding stylistic device in propaganda is the use of contrasts. One of the most striking means by which the media have influenced social attitudes – changing or reinforcing opinions – has been through the use of stereotypes. By that, I mean conventional figures that have come to be regarded as representative of particular classes, races, and so on. This aspect of propaganda is full of confrontations between order and chaos and good and evil, and in each case the contrast ser