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100 Years Of Propaganda: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

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Re: 100 Years Of Propaganda: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

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There is no doubts about the immorality and emotional deception of these designs; they are still worth mentioning because they were extremely powerful and effective at the time. There is an odd double-standard when this note is appended to a discussion of Nazis, when there isn't a similar one about the communists. In fact, one of the Nazi posters in question appears to be from an election (the other one is about the…

Obama's "HOPE" poster seems like a great example.

Re: 100 Years Of Propaganda: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

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Have people seen the clip of an aged Edward Bernays saying he coined phrase "Public Relations" because the word "propaganda" had acquired negative connotations? Public relations is just propaganda for corporations. Too bad this article doesn't cover that.

One long documentary that includes that clip is "The Century of Self" by Adam Curtis (search archive.org for higher quality videos) which practically centers around Edward Bernays, the "father of Public Relations".

link: http://www.archive.org/details/AdaCurtisCenturyoftheSelf_0 (part 1 of 4)

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