{"id":2932,"date":"2010-09-06T20:45:04","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T01:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/?p=2932"},"modified":"2010-09-06T20:47:55","modified_gmt":"2010-09-07T01:47:55","slug":"persuasion-propaganda-and-public-relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/2010\/09\/06\/persuasion-propaganda-and-public-relations\/","title":{"rendered":"Persuasion, Propaganda, and Public Relations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve never had a chance to hear how the public relations industry in this country began, and how we got to where we&#8217;re at (e.g. much of modern &#8220;news&#8221; reporting is simply paid-for advertising by PR companies), take a look at what I believe is one of the very best presentations on the subject. In &#8220;The Century of Self,&#8221; Adam\u00a0Curtis illustrates how the American father of PR, Edward Bernays, employed his uncle Sigmund Freud&#8217;s ideas in the US in the 1920s to change the way decisions are wrought at all levels of society. It&#8217;s one of the few times you&#8217;ll hear about the idea of &#8220;the mass-manipulation of public opinion&#8221; that is actually informed by a great deal of research and historical standing rather than self-satisfying, conspiratorial assertion. The series also speaks much to the nature of non-obvious propaganda that infuses American discussions of lifestyle, war rhetoric, etc. All four-parts of the riveting series can be watched immediately via Google Video.<a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=6718420906413643126#\">The Century of Self, Part 1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve never had a chance to hear how the public relations industry in this country began, and how we got to where we&#8217;re at (e.g. much of modern &#8220;news&#8221; reporting is simply paid-for advertising by PR companies), take a look at what I believe is one of the very best presentations on the subject. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2932"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2973,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2932\/revisions\/2973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}