Perception Management is a moderately honest term. It is
Propaganda or even Psyops,
the military shorthand for Psychological Operations, although they tend more
toward deliberately misleading people.
Perception Management ex Wiki Actions to convey and/or deny selected information and indicators to
foreign audiences to influence their emotions, motives, and objective
reasoning as well as to intelligence systems and leaders at all to influence
official estimates, ultimately resulting in foreign behaviors and official
actions favorable to the originator's objectives. In various ways,
perception management combines truth projection,
operations security, cover and deception, and psychological operations.[1] "Perception"
is defined as the "process by which individuals select, organize, and interpret
the input from their senses to give meaning and order to the world around them"
[2] Components of perception include the
perceiver, target of perception, and the situation. Factors that influence the
perceiver: Factors that influence the target: The phrase "perception management" has often functioned as a
euphemism
for "an aspect of
information warfare." A scholar in the field notes a distinction between
"perception management" and
public diplomacy, which "does not, as a rule, involve falsehood and
deception, whereas these are important ingredients of perception management; the
purpose is to get the other side to believe what one wishes it to believe,
whatever the truth may be."[3]
The phrase "perception management" is filtering into common use as a synonym for
"persuasion."
Public relations firms now offer "perception management" as one of their
services. Similarly, public officials who are being accused of shading the truth
are now frequently charged with engaging in "perception management" when
disseminating information to media or to the general public. Although perception management operations are typically carried out within
the international arena between governments, and between governments and
citizens, use of perception management techniques have become part of mainstream
information management systems in many ways that do not concern military
campaigns or government relations with citizenry. Businesses may even contract
with other businesses to conduct perception management for them, or they may
conduct it in-house with their public relations staff. As Stan Moore has written, "Just because truth has been omitted, does not
mean that truth is not true. Just because reality has not been perceived, does
not mean that it is not real."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perception_management
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Perception management is a term originated by the
US military. The
US Department of Defense (DOD) gives this definition:
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The American war
machine has its very own bureaucracy. It is huge, growing, pointless, a way of
life that keeps thousands or millions off the dole. They have life styles,
mortgages, families; they want it, they need it.
It is only tax payers money, so that doesn't matter.