But then why does China call their public relations department ministry of propaganda?
They don't. We just translate it that way. This is the definition of what PR is about.
Relations conducted on behalf of institutions without the informed consent of the public prior to being related.
When Geldstar needed somebody to lie on their behalf, It was the violation of the public's trust and safety when they hired a firm specializing in non-consensual public relations
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)