Given below are two statements. In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below.

Both statements are true and describe how propaganda handles truth and falsehood.

The first holds that propagandic communication at the national level supposes that truth need not be separated from falsehood, which fits propaganda's willingness to mix the two for effect.

The second holds that the mediated propaganda process blurs truth and falsehood in order to be persuasive, which describes the same blending as a deliberate technique.

Both point to propaganda's loosening of the line between fact and fiction.

By clouding that line it shapes belief and steers opinion.

This is why critical media literacy is stressed as a defence.