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How poor messaging is ruining Jubilee party

A government’s main preoccupation is projecting a good image of itself. It works like this; the propaganda machine helps explain away an administration’s failings even as it amplifies its successes; modest or big, real or imagined.

Rule number one on the political propaganda manual is to talk about achievements again and again; lies travel faster than truth. Keep in mind that you will never say it enough times.

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