Modern Day Propaganda

So first, what is Propaganda? My definition of it would be an organization/group trying to persuade the public with advertisement. Back in war times, there was propaganda for World War 1. There were ads made to try and get males to enlist in the war. They often made the males feel guilty by saying things like "Protect the women." There were also ads showing female soilders at work as if to say everyone can pitch in to help protect the country. The communication of propaganda has gone from ads to radio and TV. Nowadays, war isn't the big deal. I feel as though the big focus of propaganda now is on physical apperance like make-up, clothes, shoes, colognes, alcohol, and cigarettes. For make-up and cologne, there are often commercials that have both female and male in them using the product to try and make themselves more appealing to the opposite sex. There are celebrity influences in clothing and shoe advertisement, basically saying "If you want to be like so and so, wear these clothes." Alcohol and cigarettes have both a postive and negative propaganda to them. This meaning that there are advertisements out there persuading people that alcohol and drugs are bad like Live Above the Influence. Then there are the other ads that show these rich looking people sitting in clubs with females/males surrounding them smoking or drinking. Propaganda is also in the music that we listen to. Music about being rich, having cars, having females, being pretty, and partying all night. Teens and maybe even adults strive to be like these artists when reality, it's probably not even like that. Because of the way things are presented to us in the news, we automatically go off of that one view and critque that one view. News stations choose which perspective they want viewers to see a story, also propaganda because from there they persuade you that what they're saying is correct. I think that propaganda will never die. There's just too much competition and striving to be best in this world.