“It is asked whether, in fact, the leader makes propaganda, or whether propaganda makes the leader. There is a widespread impression that a good press agent can puff up a nobody into a great man. The answer is the same… — Edward L. Bernays Copy Share Image
“Universal literacy was supposed to educate the common man to control his environment. Once he could read and write he would have a mind fit to rule. So ran the democratic doctrine. But instead of a mind, universal literacy has given him rubber stamps, rubber stamps inked with advertising slogans, with editorials, with published scientific data, with the trivialities of… — Edward L. Bernays Copy Share
“But being dependent, every day of the year and for year after year, upon certain politicians for news, the newspaper reporters are obliged to… — Edward L. Bernays Copy Share Image
“It is asked whether, in fact, the leader makes propaganda, or whether propaganda makes the leader. There is a widespread impression that a good… — Edward L. Bernays Copy Share Image
