The seven propaganda devices include:

* Name calling — giving something a bad label to make the audience 
reject it without examining the evidence;
* Glittering generalities — the opposite of name calling;
* Card stacking — the selective use of facts and half-truths;
* Bandwagon — appeals to the desire, common to most of us, to follow the 
crowd;
* Plain folks — an attempt to convince an audience that they, and their 
ideas, are “of the people”;
* Transfer  —  carries over the authority, sanction and prestige of 
something we respect or dispute to something the speaker would want us 
to accept; and
* Testimonials  —  involving a respected (or disrespected) person 
endorsing or rejecting an idea or person.

(This was, without citation, a file in my computer I noticed today.  Sylvia)



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