Tactics likened to Hitler’s propaganda
Wellington reporter Labour’s propaganda tactics at the taxpayers’ expense were putting democracy at risk, said the president of the National Party, Mr Neville Young, yesterday. He said it might be no coincidence that Hitler’s Germany used the same propaganda tactics — “and wherever a Government has adopted these tactics, democracy is at risk.”,
Mr Young said the Government had organised saturation news media and letterbox campaigns for its tax changes because polls, funded again by the taxpayer, showed it was on the wrong side of an issue, Mr Young said. “The traditional responsibility of a Government to inform the people of changes in policy that affect their lives is being used as a smokescreen for political propaganda.”
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Press, 29 September 1988, Page 5
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