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Originally posted by [personal profile] matrixmann at Erinnerung

1999: NATO unleashes warfare over Yugoslavia.

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Date: 26 March 2017 02:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mexpatriot.livejournal.com
This will provide some answers:

Stunned by the degree to which the democracy slogan had swayed the public both at home and abroad, he wondered whether this propaganda model could be employed during peacetime.[citation needed] Due to negative implications surrounding the word propaganda because of its use by the Germans in World War I, he promoted the term public relations.[citation needed] According to the BBC interview with Bernays' daughter Anne, Bernays believed that the public's democratic judgment was "not to be relied upon" and feared that the American public "could very easily vote for the wrong man or want the wrong thing, so that they had to be guided from above." Anne interpreted "guidance" to mean that her father believed in a sort of "enlightened despotism".[7]



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Date: 26 March 2017 02:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mexpatriot.livejournal.com
It seems that, besides being screened, I cannot put a link in my comment.

I tired to put a link to the Wiki for Edward Bernays. This man was responsible for much of what you talk about. He was responsible for making bacon an American breakfast food. He is the father of Public Relations.

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Date: 26 March 2017 02:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mexpatriot.livejournal.com
Bernays also pioneered the public relations industry's use of psychology and other social sciences to design its public persuasion campaigns: "If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, is it not possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing about it? The recent practice of propaganda has proved that it is possible, at least up to a certain point and within certain limits."[9] He called this scientific technique of opinion-molding the engineering of consent.[10]

--from the Bernays Wiki

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