The label propaganda is now applied only to what opponents disseminate, never to self-description.

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

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the asymmetric self/other distinction embedded in modern use of ‘propaganda’.
• XREF: Connects to Said-adjacent work on the ‘information vs. propaganda’ asymmetry sustaining Orientalist knowledge claims.
• ADDENDUM: Feeds related article ‘Complaints About Immodesty Go Way Back’ insofar as both track how terms of persuasion get moralized asymmetrically.