World War II 'rumor clinics' helped America battle wild gossip

Re:World War II 'rumor clinics' helped America battle wild g... by kouru225 on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @11:21AM (#39617521)

All PR used to be called propaganda. Now it’s a dirty word. The father of PR, Edward Bernays, quite literally wrote a book about what his job was called “Propaganda.”

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Re:World War II 'rumor clinics' helped America battle wild g... by subtra3t on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @11:22AM (#39617533)

Is the book worth reading, for an average lurker of HN?

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Re:World War II 'rumor clinics' helped America battle wild g... by walthamstow on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @11:36AM (#39617688)

More interesting is the Adam Curtis documentary about Bernays, The Century of the Self.

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Re:World War II 'rumor clinics' helped America battle wild g... by kouru225 on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @01:31PM (#39619271)

Agreed

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