They're definitely propaganda. "Propaganda" means "everything that does and doesn't exist." If you disagree, you are wrong, or worse, a linguistic prescriptivist.
Jokes aside, "images of facts on the ground" can be misleading. A camera was placed in a location at a time, and the camera produced photographs. Why was it here and not there? Why snap a photo now and not then? To expose what's in the frame? To distract from what's outside the frame?
They're definitely propaganda. "Propaganda" means "everything that does and doesn't exist." If you disagree, you are wrong, or worse, a linguistic prescriptivist.
Jokes aside, "images of facts on the ground" can be misleading. A camera was placed in a location at a time, and the camera produced photographs. Why was it here and not there? Why snap a photo now and not then? To expose what's in the frame? To distract from what's outside the frame?
Not saying anything about the object level.
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