LOL, nothing new here - check this: 'The Committee on Public Information (CPI) was a government agency established in the United States during World War I with the aim of supporting the war effort. It was created by executive order shortly after the United States entered the war in 1917 and was shuttered in 1919 with the cessation of hos…
LOL, nothing new here - check this: 'The Committee on Public Information (CPI) was a government agency established in the United States during World War I with the aim of supporting the war effort. It was created by executive order shortly after the United States entered the war in 1917 and was shuttered in 1919 with the cessation of hostilities. Thanks to extensive government archives, materials produced and used by the agency are readily available and provide insight into the way the US government promoted the war to the American people.
President Woodrow Wilson appointed a journalist, George Creel, to head the CPI. Key officials from the military were also important members. One aspect of the committee's work was censorship of potentially damaging material, and the committee maintained a stranglehold on the kind of material from the war that could be released to the public.
The other arm of the Committee on Public Information's work involved generating propaganda materials. Creel ran the committee much like an advertising agency and provided a blitz of media materials, like magazine and newspaper articles, posters, still photographs, film reels, and radio broadcasts to reach the citizens of the United States. The agency provided speech makers for public events and numerous other resources for communities across the United States." https://www.history.com/news/world-war-1-propaganda-woodrow-wilson-fake-news
Sounds pretty familiar. Operation Mockingbird was the post-WWII equivalent - https://streamfortyseven.substack.com/p/when-the-establishment-media-speak - and similar exercises in total information awareness and perception management continue to the present, with facebook and twitter as exanples.
Wilson paid people to stand on soapbox and shout about supporting the war. He also jailed people who were caught talking and protesting against it. Not a nice sight when mothers who were protesting sending their sons into war....like pawns on a chess board is how Wilson thought about the peons. He also desegregated the military and watch films about the KKK.
LOL, nothing new here - check this: 'The Committee on Public Information (CPI) was a government agency established in the United States during World War I with the aim of supporting the war effort. It was created by executive order shortly after the United States entered the war in 1917 and was shuttered in 1919 with the cessation of hostilities. Thanks to extensive government archives, materials produced and used by the agency are readily available and provide insight into the way the US government promoted the war to the American people.
President Woodrow Wilson appointed a journalist, George Creel, to head the CPI. Key officials from the military were also important members. One aspect of the committee's work was censorship of potentially damaging material, and the committee maintained a stranglehold on the kind of material from the war that could be released to the public.
The other arm of the Committee on Public Information's work involved generating propaganda materials. Creel ran the committee much like an advertising agency and provided a blitz of media materials, like magazine and newspaper articles, posters, still photographs, film reels, and radio broadcasts to reach the citizens of the United States. The agency provided speech makers for public events and numerous other resources for communities across the United States." https://www.history.com/news/world-war-1-propaganda-woodrow-wilson-fake-news
Sounds pretty familiar. Operation Mockingbird was the post-WWII equivalent - https://streamfortyseven.substack.com/p/when-the-establishment-media-speak - and similar exercises in total information awareness and perception management continue to the present, with facebook and twitter as exanples.
Wilson paid people to stand on soapbox and shout about supporting the war. He also jailed people who were caught talking and protesting against it. Not a nice sight when mothers who were protesting sending their sons into war....like pawns on a chess board is how Wilson thought about the peons. He also desegregated the military and watch films about the KKK.