དྡྷ'' ཨ ཡཾ ཡཱབྷདྷབྷ; ཝཱ ཏྟཱ
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distribution by mail.
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The mailing list of severul thousand was par p
Meanwhile the sub by the unit from Immigration Department information. is pursuing plans to assist local Chinese newspapers to build up their own circulation on a sound commercial basis by negotiating on their bul for favourable, air-freight rates and advising on effective distribution.
Press Releases
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This is such a standard operation for the Information Serv and covers such a wide range of subjects that there 1g little useful t say of it except that the unit has produced press releases on every t which seemed to fit in with the aims of the day. These have ranged f... the improvement of departmental press releases so as to bring out som positive propaganda message, the coverage by reporters of the unit of such as police reids and searches or incidents on the border to the p ration of Chinese feature articles 'such as those explaining the Briti: system of justice generally to special series on new laws like the Publ Order Ordinance and the Criminal Procedure Ordinance. All these prcou releases were issued in Chinese and most of them having been conceived written in Chinese were not issued in English.
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The majority of these press releases were purely factual a being intended as propaganda, they did not hesitate to point out obvi.....: conclusions from the facts they presented. During June, July and par. August, however, one series of daily Chinese articles was insuca under w
The title "Indisputable Facts" which were forthrightly opinionated. designed to ridicule, expose, and counter communist tactics, action aut propaganda, This series was widely used by the non-communist props an! was broadcast twice daily by Radio Hong Kong's Chinese service.
Direct, person-to-person contact
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The half reasons for incolt hing an S,C.A. component in a special publicity unit were to maintain the vital link with S.C.. an of Government's "communication" departments, to exploit the 2.0.L.'s experience and machinery for tapping public opinion and to use that machinery as a further means for disseminating Government propaganda, Episodes like the food strike provide excellent examples of the up whic can be made of these methods. S.C.A. purnonuel, directed by the 9.0... component of the publicity unit got out among hawkers and food seller., organised resistance to communist strike appcals, provided down-to-carbh facts, based on personal observation, on food prices in the streets anKi carried government's message when other means of communication either did not reach or had no impact. This technique has since been repeated in other situations, and could be exploited much more in future as one the best weapons in the Government propaganda armoury if more men of the right type could be found.
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