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	Glittering generalities - SourceWatch
		Glittering generalities "was one of the seven main propaganda techniques identified by the Institute for Propaganda Analysis in 1938.
		Glittering generalities are words that have different positive meaning for individual subjects, but are linked to highly valued concepts.
		Words often used as glittering generalities are honor, glory, love of country, and especially in the United States, freedom.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Glittering_generalities (463 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Glittering generalities involves the skillful use of words that already have an emotional message attached to them.
		Their effectiveness lies in how they are able to get all of their surrogates to use the same talking points with the same glittering generalities at the same time.
		Before long it is almost impossible to separate the issue they are trying to perpetuate from the glittering generalities that have been used to disguise it.
	www.indybay.org /newsitems/2005/03/31/17306621.php?printable=true (384 words)

	Mr. Gunnar's English Classes
		As generally understood, propaganda is expression of opinion or action by individuals or groups deliberately designed to influence opinions or actions of other individuals or groups with reference to predetermined ends.
		Glittering Generalities" is a device by which the propagandist identifies his program with virtue by use of "virtue words." He appeals to our emotions of love, generosity, and brotherhood.
		As we said in the beginning, propaganda is generally understood as the expression of opinion or action by individuals or groups with reference to predetermined ends.
	myschoolonline.com /page/0,1871,10186-142069-11-15373,00.html (1753 words)

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		Glittering generalities are intensely emotionally appealing words so closely associated with highly valued concepts and beliefs that they carry conviction without supporting information or reason.
		This technique is generally used to transfer blame from one member of a conflict to another.
		This technique is generally used to explain the need for sacrifices or to justify the seemingly harsh actions that displease the target audience or restrict personal liberties.
	www.constitution.org /col/propaganda_army.txt (4280 words)

	Propaganda Techniques (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		When coming across with glittering generalities, we should especially consider the merits of the idea itself when separated from specific words.
		This technique is usually most effective when used with glittering generalities, in an attempt to convince the public that the propagandist views about highly valued ideas are similar to their own and therefore more valid.
		However, in politics, transfer is most often used to transfer blame or bad feelings from one politician to another of his friends or party members, or even to the party itself.
	library.thinkquest.org /C0111500/proptech.htm (1385 words)

	Glittering generalities
		Use words that appeal to values, which often themselves are related to triggering of powerful emotions.
		A common element of glittering generalities are intangible nouns that embody ideals, such as dignity, freedom, fame, integrity, justice, love and respect.
		Glittering generalities seek to evoke emotions without making any commitments or putting the speaker in a position where they may be challenged or criticized.
	changingminds.org /techniques/propaganda/glittering_generalities.htm (258 words)

	Freedomwriter.com :: Headline News :: - America - PROPAGANDA: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH'S STATE ...
		Because a person will assume that a word is being used in the sense s/he thinks it is, a Glittering Generality can make an audience approve and accept a concept or person or, conversely, disapprove a concept or person based upon what s/he thinks s/he is hearing without examining all of the evidence.
		President Bush uses the Glittering Generality technique when he states, “the Iraqi regime has violated [its] obligations.” An obligation is a vague term that means different things to different people.
		By using the Glittering Generality of civilized, Bush dehumanizes the people of Iraq, Hussein in particular, to a level beneath the rest of the “civilized world”, i.e.
	www.freedomwriter.com /issue27/am1.htm (6182 words)

	Rufus Choate. 1799-1859. John Bartlett, comp. 1919. Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.
		Its constitution the glittering and sounding generalities 2 of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.
		The courage of New England was the “courage of Conscience.” It did not rise to that insane and awful passion, the love of war for itself.
		Unless Choate used the words “glittering generalities,” and Dickman made reference to them, it would seem as if Dickman must have the credit of originating the catchword.
	www.bartleby.com /100/403.html (321 words)

	Logic Loop Forty Three
		Glittering generalities are used for their emotional value, not their logical value.
		This ad is using vague, flashy claims – glittering generalities – to make you feel as though their product will help you loose weight.
		By now, you should have some idea of what a glittering generality is. Here is a little research project intended for kids and teens 15 and under.
	www.christianlogic.com /loop/logic_loop_43.htm (1988 words)

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		The inspector general drafted this report at my request to examine the reasons that the Department of Defense had failed to comply with legislation that I had developed in the fiscal year 1991 Defense Authorization Act calling for a comprehensive report on the defense industrial base.
		The inspector general of the Department of Defense is saying that the new administration has effectively done nothing to try to understand the changes taking place in the defense industrial base, to understand the problems involved, and to take action to solve them.
		The inspector general is saying that the administration has no factual or valid analytic basis for its new programs for defense conversion, and no real means of understanding their effect.
	www.fas.org /man/company/930715-cr.htm (3822 words)

	PROPAGANDA MEDIA
		Use is limited in general war due to the inaccessibility of the target individual or group.
		It is appropriate for use in limited, general, and cold war and is particularly effective in FID (Foreign Internal Defense) and consolidation operations.
		Complex graphics, on the other hand, generally confuse the audience and are subject to ambiguous and undesirable interpretations by the audience.
	joeorgren.com /propagandamanual.htm (14507 words)

	portland imc - 2005.03.31 - Propaganda Tools: Glittering Generalities
		Glittering generalities carry a positive emotional message that many people can identify with and at the same time can mean different things to different people.
		When Washington said "So help me god," at the conclusion of his taking the oath of office as the first president of the United States, he should have been immediately impeached, for subversion.
		If we don't put a stop to this continuing hijacking of the constitution soon, a Taliban-like pall will descend on the country, out from under which we will no longer be able to escape.
	portland.indymedia.org /en/2005/03/314644.shtml (443 words)

	Psuedo Heroes
		But this Ecko advertisement and it's caption uses the card stacking technique as well as glittering generalities such as "the American Dream" and "born from a dream; nurtured by creativity" to persuade consumers to accept their views.
		This advertisement uses the bandwagon technique coupled with glittering generalities to voice it's opinions.
		The ACLU also makes use of glittering generalities with the use of such virtuous word as the pillar of democracy and freedom.
	iron.lcc.gatech.edu /~gtg044u (1267 words)

	SEVEN BASIC PALESTINIAN PROPAGANDA DEVICES : LA IMC
		Instead of trying to attach negative meanings to ideas or people, glittering generalities use positive phrases, which the audience are attached to, in order to lend a positive image to things.
		Combating the use of 'glittering generalities' requires undermining the use of a positive term.
		When a speaker warns that the consequences of ignoring his message is likely to be war, conflict, personal suffering, and so forth, they are manipulating fear to advance their message.
	la.indymedia.org /news/2006/10/181107.php (1945 words)

	Glittering generality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Glittering generalities are emotionally appealing words so closely associated with highly valued concepts and beliefs that they carry conviction without supporting information or reason.
		They appeal to emotions such as love of country, home; desire for peace, freedom, glory, honor, etc. They ask for approval without examination of the reason.
		In Australian political discourse, the phrases Aussie battler, "a fair go" and the concept of "unAustralian" are prime examples of the phenomenon.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Glittering_generality (425 words)

	Do We Color It 'Propaganda'? -- Thomas D. Segel -- GOPUSA
		Those glittering "generalities" are another propaganda device used as the reverse of name-calling.
		News reports that call war participants "freedom fighters", "insurgents", or "religious factions" and refusing to use the term "terrorist" are engaging in a glittering generality.
		It should be noted that the word "terrorist" is also one of those generalities used by the opposing faction.
	www.gopusa.com /commentary/tsegel/2006/ts_03272.shtml (543 words)

	LENIN'S TOMB (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Dispensing with glittering generalities, one finds that the policy of the occupiers was to create a weak central state and a strong network of war lords and police chiefs.
		In general, if you are bus-driver or a taxi-driver who omits to pay a bribe to the local soldiers and police, you will be kidnapped and beaten and in many cases killed.
		In general, a strong presidency is a means of attenuating not strengthening representative institutions, and this has been especially so in tutelary or colonial situations.
	leninology.blogspot.com.cob-web.org:8888 (5408 words)

	Sample Jigsaw Problem Solving Lesson Plan
		In everyday language, students are asked to identify the “selling” strategy used by the advertisers in each ad.
		Tsw define and describe four propaganda techniques: appeal to authority, bandwagon effect, glittering generalities, and transfer.
		Divide the propaganda topic into four categories: (a) appeal to authority, (b) bandwagon effect, (c) glittering generalities, and (d) transfer.
	mtsu32.mtsu.edu:11331 /Jigsaw.htm (173 words)

	glittering generalities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This technique is used when you give a lot of positive descriptoins about an idea or product.
		The descriptions are usually "fluff," adding "glitter" to a product or idea to make it sound good.
		The comments are very general, and not specific at all.
	www.tc.umn.edu /~ashf0010/glitgen.htm (120 words)

	Hawaii Reporter: Hawaii Reporter
		While General George Crook was a mediocre Union Army cavalry general during the Civil War, he was a first rate Indian fighter.
		They are held to be the wards of the government, and the only title to the law concedes to them to the lands they occupy or claim is a mere possessory one.
		Regarding the issue of sovereignty, either in Hawaii or anywhere else, it is only the concept of the individual as sovereign with the government’s task to defend his natural rights (glittering generalities) under a color blind justice system that is consistent with liberty and prosperity.
	www.hawaiireporter.com /story.aspx?85db4b9a-3d3f-4177-b0a5-a77edd10035a (1558 words)

	Scrutinizing Propaganda
		Glittering Generalities is the opposite of Name Calling.
		Without it they are helpless; with it, harnessing it to their purposes, they can make us glow with pride or burn with hatred, they can make us zealots in behalf of the program they endorse.
		Propaganda as generally understood is expression of opinion or action by individuals or groups with reference to predetermined ends.
	www.infidels.org /library/modern/features/2000/hill1.html (1939 words)

	The Church of Critical Thinking - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Propaganda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Those of you who did take Critical Thinking classes will recognize Name-Calling as an argumentum ad hominem, a form of fallacious argument that is an attack against a person rather than his or her idea.
		In acquainting ourselves with the Glittering Generality Device, therefore, all that has been said regarding Name Calling must be kept in mind.
		Glittering generalities are practically a cornerstone of political advertising.
	churchofcriticalthinking.com /archives/000113the_7_habits_of_high.html (1876 words)

	Propaganda Critic: Word games > Glittering generalities
		For our purposes in propaganda analysis, we call these virtue words "Glittering Generalities" in order to focus attention upon this dangerous characteristic that they have: They mean different things to different people; they can be used in different ways.
		The Glittering Generality is, in short, Name Calling in reverse.
		While Name Calling seeks to make us form a judgment to reject and condemn without examining the evidence, the Glittering Generality device seeks to make us approve and accept without examining the evidence.
	www.propagandacritic.com /articles/ct.wg.gg.html (335 words)

	ON SCIENTIFIC METHOD by Percy W. Bridgman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		When the scientist ventures to criticize the work of his fellow scientist, as is not uncommon, he does not base his criticism on such glittering generalities as failure to follow the "scientific method," but his criticism is specific, based on some feature characteristic of the particular situation.
		These people have been able to uncover various generalities applicable to at least most of what the scientist does, but it seems to me that these generalities are not very profound, and could have been anticipated by anyone who know enough about scientists to know what is their primary objective.
		Furthermore, this checking must be exhaustive, for the truth of a general proposition may be disproved by a single exceptional case.
	www.lhup.edu /~dsimanek/bridgman.htm (616 words)

	VoteHawaii » Blog Archive » ‘Glittering Generalities’ and Hawaii
		In negotiating these treaties they were made to understand their true condition, and they have preferred maintaining their independence in the Western forests to submitting to the laws of the States in which they now reside.” Therefore the Indian Removal Act was implemented.
		He made this clear in his second Inaugural address by making the point that Indians were “Endowed with the faculties and rights of man” and therefore had the duty “to exercise their reason, follow its dictates, and change their pursuits with the change of circumstances…”
		But because treaties have been made with them generally for the extinguishment of their supposed absolute title to land inhabited by them, or over which they roam, they have become falsely impressed with the notion of national independence.
	www.votehawaii.com /2005/07/29/glittering-generalities-and-hawaii (1596 words)

	The Topic Everybody Who's Anybody is Studying...
		While Name Calling seeks to make the hearer/reader form a judgment to reject and condemn without examining the evidence, the "Glittering Generality" device seeks to win approval and acceptance without examining any evidence.
		are the tools of the propagandist who uses "Glittering Generalities" to trick his audience into thinking that he understands their concerns and their needs, when he may actually understand these words to mean something entirely different.
		In some situations the propagandist attempts to pacify the audience in order to make an unpleasant reality more palatable by using words that are bland and euphemistic.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/teaching_with_style/48434 (406 words)

	CNN NEWSROOM Guide for January 26, 1996
		This week's State of the Union speech and GOP response provided several examples of "glittering generalities." Distribute the HANDOUT (pg 3).
		After each "glittering generality," state briefly what you think the speaker was trying to say and to whom he was trying to appeal.
		Search the media for more examples of "glittering generalities," analyze them, and present your findings to the class.
	learning.turner.com /newsroom/archive/0196/NR012696.html (988 words)

	glittering - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Glittering : Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
		Phrases that include glittering: glittering caves, glittering generalities, glittering generality
		Words similar to glittering: aglitter, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glitter, glittery, scintillant, scintillating, sparkling, sparkly, more...
	www.onelook.com /?w=glittering (138 words)

	SEMEIOTICA: In which we wax poetic, make glittering generalities, judge and are judged, and all that jazz. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		SEMEIOTICA: In which we wax poetic, make glittering generalities, judge and are judged, and all that jazz.
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		In which we wax poetic, make glittering generalities, judge and are judged, and all that jazz.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~gharp/blog/2006/02/in-which-we-wax-poetic-make-glittering.html (209 words)

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