From: Peter Metcalfe (P.Metcalfe@student.canterbury.ac.nz)
Date: Thu 12 Dec 1996 - 07:07:07 EET
Danny Bourne:
>To try and get a Gloranthan line from this, how do the Lunar Empire spread
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>propoganda from Glamour central - do they use broadsheets (given that most
>Orlanthi/Praxians can't read) or Gim Gim type people.
There are three main propoganda sources.
The first is the Ministry of Truth which is housed in the Temple
of Glamour (Runes: Moon, Harmony and Illusion). This is
responsible for all the imperial propoganda issued within the
Heartlands.
The second is the Temple of the Reaching Moon at Mirin's Cross.
This exists to co-ordinate the spread of the Lunar Way within
the Provinces. As such it is theoretically responsible to
the Ministry of Truth but it is packed by cronies from the
Sultanate of Sylila and so is practically independant.
The Western Reaches has its own propoganda bureau under an
In any case, the practice is the same. Written Documents
official known as the Shah's Lip. This has caused the Southern
Orlanthi to suppose that he is a Krarshti is for some strange
reason. The loyalties of this organisation are obscure.
drafted at the highest levels are sent to all offices
detailing the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the
truth. At each office, the news is delivered to the
populace sent out by broadsheets, criers and agents spreading
rumours. Furthermore, each section official has considerable
lattitude in issuing documents on his own initiative (or
the inititive of whoever pays him).
- --Peter Metcalfe
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