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Jay, Paul, and I made a short radio podcast for the Propaganda project and got this idea from the radio in the Morning Sun website. In a sense, these two radio podcasts are very similar because they both use only audio to try to persuade the mass into participating cultural revolution and making the mass to believe how great Mao is and how hard he tries to make China a great country. But, these two shows definitely share many differences. First, we carefully selected some of the important Mao’s quotations and put analysis of the them in our podcast while the radio from the website merely had many anthems that praises Mao and the revolution. Our group thought that simply singing an anthem would not be as effective as citing some of the important quotations and analyze it so that even the uneducated mass can understand the meaning perfectly. Since the target of the propaganda is the mass who are not educated, propaganda needs to be as easy as possible, and hence we chose to put analysis in the podcast. Secondly, most of the radios in the website simply sang songs, but we actually made a simple and very concise slogan that encourages the mass to believe in Mao instead of singing a song for a minute. The slogan is “Mao, the future.” This slogan is very simple, and even uneducated mass can understand it quite easily.