How Does Martin Luther King Use Propaganda

Language is a way where people use to show their perspective in the communication. It can be used in many ways for example, how the word were used in the speech, how the language was changed, how the language was selected, or how it was slanted. For most of these ways, they are from the propaganda which is a device that were used by a lot of people to other people for a good or bad causes. It has been use many time in advertising where people fall into the belief. Political also played a big role of using propaganda to deceive citizen to support their idea, etc… All throughout history, propaganda has been used as a powerful device to persuade people by mean of manipulation for the intention of self-benefit. Martin Luther King, the greatest
For the use of selected language, it was found in the article, Selection, Slanting, and Charged Language, written by Newman P. Birk and Genevieve B. Birk which they explain how the language are used in many way by choosing the principle and the slant of the selection. When people communication, they already have chosen the principle of language by selecting which facts they take in, and slanting the selection through knowledge, words, and emphasis; so they win the intention of the communicator. For example, when you have a communication with a doctor and you ask him a question about some sort of disease, the doctor would have answer you the question through his own knowledge, words, and emphasis that he already defined. He would tell you how the disease was born, and how bad the disease would affect your health rather than normal people can only describe it in normal
MLK delivered a speech on 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C which his speech calls for an end to racism in the United States. His speech had delivering to over hundred thousands of civil rights supporters which excited them as the listeners. What make his speech became amazing and famous was the propaganda device that he used and how he modifies his speech by selection of the fact he should be in as a speaker, and slangs the speech to rise his supporter excitement feeling up. In his speech, he use glittering generalities and plain folk at the beginning of his speech. When MLK said, “I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation”, he tried to merge himself into one of his supporters by used plain folk device with the word “Our nation” in his speech. This word “Our nation” can be identified as glittering generalities because it contains a good connotation in it, but if we look closely into that word, what would it mean by “Our nation? Is it a nation as United States? Or is it a nation as African-American? On the other side from propaganda device, he