WAR ON TRUTH

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The Secret Battle for the American Mind

Australian academic Alex Carey once wrote that "the twentieth century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy."

In societies like ours, corporate propaganda is delivered through advertising and public relations. Most people recognize that advertising is propaganda. We understand that whoever paid for and designed an ad wants us to think or feel a certain way, vote for a certain candidate, or purchase a certain product. Public relations, on the other hand, is much more insidious. Because it's disguised as information, we often don't realize we are being influenced by public relations. But this multi-billion-dollar transnational industry's propaganda campaigns affect our private and public lives every day. PR firms that most people have never heard of -- such as Burson-Marsteller, Hill & Knowlton, and Ketchum -- are working on behalf of myriad powerful interests, from dictatorships to the cosmetic industry, manipulating public opinion, policy making, and the flow of information.

As editor of the quarterly investigative journal PR Watch, John Stauber exposes how public relations works and helps people to understand it.

Stauber Interview:

http://www.ratical.org/ratville/PRcorrupt.html

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1. Yep ..kinda like a O with a small d in the middle??????????

another words..the O is important ..and the D is small and unimportant!

Kinda like the Pepsi logo now being a presidential logo?

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2. K&R n/t