When did propaganda become the new four letter word?....

Propaganda why is this such a bad thing? Is this a bad thing?Isn't this just another way for a story to be controlled? Don't we have this happen every day?

Sooooo many questions when it comes to propaganda. First of all propaganda is not bad, just like anything else it all comes back to how it is used.  Americans look at propaganda of other nations and think it is evil.  But you have to look at the intended audience, American's were not intended to like  this Iranian video from a few years ago that shows Americans as failures who are fat, our prisons are over crowded (well they really are) and our kids shoot other kids at school. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL9MaZQORfI

No the intended audience are the Iranians, of course this is going to be labeled as hate propaganda.  But when you think about the intent and what it is trying to do, while yes it is propaganda, it necessarily isn't evil.

For example how could Donald Duck ever seem evil, but yes he was part of some entertaining American Propaganda from the 1940's about paying your income tax....(yes I know income tax is evil...but the intent was not)
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ69X1qt4sQ#t=49

Propaganda is not a four letter word, but just another tool in controlling the story.