Propaganda

Antoinette’s most recent biographer, attributes the remark to the Queen Marie-Thérèse, wife of Louis XIV, the Sun King, but there is a host of other grand eighteenth-century ladies who might have said it. It’s also entirely possible it was made up for propaganda purposes. There is another story that suggests Marie Antoinette introduced croissants to France from her native Vienna. This seems highly unlikely, as the earliest French reference to a croissant isn’t until 1853. Interestingly, wandering Austrian

million wireless sets and the BBC estimated that half their audience listened to football and cricket. The war had heightened the role of radio as an important source of information for the population and sport had been a handy weapon of wartime propaganda, expressing the British people’s “fighting spirit” and solidarity. After the war, radio increased its coverage of sport events and for many listeners, the voices and comments from the BBC reporters were part of the game. Some of its programs even

public. On peut les trouver dans les comptes rendus et les rapports sur les auditions du gouvernement publiés entre 1928 et 1946 par les commissions du Sénat et du Congrès enquêtant que la propagande nazie ("House Subcommintee to Investigate Nazi Propaganda") en 1934, par les rapports sur les cartels publiés en 1941 par la Commission économique provisoire nationale du Congrès ("House Temporary National Economic Commitee"), ainsi que par le souscomité du Sénat pour la mobilisation en 1946 ("Senate Subcommitee

effort. Journalist: So this changed mentalities? Changed the way people viewed women in the workplace? Professor: Exactly! It became the patriotic thing to do! And the US government did everything they could to encourage this attitude. They printed propaganda posters showing women in factory uniforms, wielding heavy equipment. These posters portrayed women as beautiful, but also as strong and capable. 1’45’’ Part 2 Journalist: You’re talking about the famous Rosie the Riveter, aren’t you? Professor:

rhétorique. » (1) Cf. notamment Richard D. D. WHATELY, Elements of Rhetoric, 1828 ; cardinal NEWMAN, Grammar of Assent, 1870. (2) Pour la bibliographie, voir H. D. LASSWELL, R. D. CASEY and B. L. SMITH Propaganda and Promotional Activities, 1935 ; B. L. SMITH, H. D. LASSWELL and R. D . CAsEv, Propaganda, Communication and Publie Opinion, 1946. (3) ARISTOTE, Topiques, liv. L chap. 1, 100 a. P 6-7 : « La première d'entre elles est la confusion que risquerait d'apporter ce retour à Aristote. Car si le

the triangle ABC has sides AB, AC equal then so are the angles B, C. This would certainly be ‘revolutionary’ if we had any reliable evidence (which, as far as Thales is concerned, Proclus is not). One should not discount the value of myth and late propaganda as historical source material. But it is, in the main, source material for ‘what later Greeks thought about their origins’ rather than for ‘what Thales did’. The idea that such a fact, which Thales’ predecessors could well have considered obvious

ensuring that the public knows about and accepts the reforms. High illiteracy rates—officially estimated at 42 percent of urban women and 82 percent of rural women— represent a significant obstacle in this regard. Under such conditions, inflammatory propaganda about the reforms being spread at the grassroots level by extremist religious groups can be quite damaging. The Ministry of Justice, the national media, and civil society organizations have begun campaigns to counteract such misinformation. Given

tant de dépenses et d’excès industriels, cela nous ramène à la psychanalyse : tandis que Freud inventait cette science, saviez-vous que son neveu, Edward Bernays (1891-1995), devenait l’un des pères des relations publiques aux États-Unis, écrivant Propaganda : comment manipuler l’opinion en démocratie ? Son enseignement : comment vendre des biens et services aux masses hétérogènes que nous constituons, en se fondant sur nos désirs égotiques. 70 en manIère de conclusIon… Bref, l’un profitait

deal (when the deal also involve US for example which is a highly regulated country). I encountered some situations like that. I would say that it works like this in China. A.B. How does the government control the Chinese society (censorship, propaganda and so on)? Anonymous: I would say that if you compared with the past ten/twenty years, you will be surprised by the freedom they gave to the people. Of course, if you compare to the situation in western countries, it is still far away from the

merced a su empleo litúrgico. La mayor parte de los documentos lingüísticos más antiguos de que disponemos con respecto a los pueblos llamados «primitivos» se los debemos a misioneros que estudiaron los respectivos idiomas para los fines de su propaganda religiosa y que muchas veces llegaron a emplearlos en escritos, también concernientes a la religión. Así, la continuidad del quechua como lengua de cultura se debe, por lo menos en parte, a que los misioneros católicos han empleado este idioma como