Propaganda became a negative label that people apply only to opponents’ messages.

Evidence

The Reich Propaganda Ministry and Soviet Agitprop between them brought the term “propaganda” into disrepute, and it is now mostly used in a negative, even a dismissive, sense. In most countries and circles nowadays, “propaganda” and its equivalents in other languages denote what our opponents put out; what we provide is “information,” “guidance” and the like. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 440 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Governments only began systematically using modern media for propaganda in 1915. — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 130; The label propaganda is now applied only to what opponents disseminate, never to self-description. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 440

Broader Connections

• The label propaganda is now applied only to what opponents disseminate, never to self-description. #corroborates (1.00) — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 440