“And it was under Wilson that the first great propaganda slogan was coined and emblazoned everywhere, to make Americans start thinking favorably of democracies and forget that we had a republic.” ThinkingFirstsForgetDemocracyPropagandaRepublicSlogansWilson Author:Robert W. Welch, Jr.
“The Right of all members of society to form their own beliefs and communicate them freely to others must be regarded as an essential principle of a democratically organized society.” FormReligionIndividualBeliefPrinciplesDemocracySpeechMembersEssentialsCommunicatePropagandaOrganizedCensorshipProhibitionIndividual Rights Author:Thomas I. Emerson
“Journalism is one of the devices whereby industrial autocracy keeps its control over political democracy; it is the day-by-day, between-elections propaganda, whereby the minds of the people are kept in a state of acquiescence, so that when the crisis of an election comes, they go to the polls and cast their ballots for either one of the two candidates of their exploiters.” PeopleMindTwoStatesPoliticalDemocracyElectionCrisisCastsJournalismPropagandaCandidatesDevicesPollsBallotsAutocracyAcquiescence Book:The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism Source: The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism
“The Second World War ended with a radicalization of the population in the United States and everywhere else, and called for all kinds of things like popular takeovers, government intervention, and worker takeovers of factories. Business propagated a tremendous propaganda offensive. The scale surprised me when I read the scholarship - it's enormous, and it's been very effective. There were two major targets: one is unions, the other is democracy.” WorldKindTwoWarStatesGovernmentUnitedUnited StatesDemocracyMajorsUnionsWorkersPopulationScalesEnormousAll KindsPropagandaWar Of The WorldsTargetFactoriesOffensiveInterventionScholarshipSecond World WarTakeoversGovernment Intervention Author:Noam Chomsky