Randal Marlin
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Paulos, John Allen, 133–34
“Politics as a Vocation” (Weber), 159
73
Pelletier, Gérard, 284, 304n91
Pol itt, Henry, 15
irrational propaganda, 29
Pericles, 37–38
Pollock, Frederick, 64
political categories, 27–28
persuasion, 38–40
Ponsonby, Arthur, 65
rational propaganda, 29
Peter the Hermit, 10
Ponting, Clive, 282
sociological propaganda, 27–28
Peterson, David, 128
Popper, Karl, 149
subversive propaganda, 28
Phaedrus (Plato), 38, 39
pornography, 218, 233, 242
vertical propaganda, 29
photography
Porter, John, 206
“Propaganda” (exhibition), xvi
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propaganda techniques
corporate propaganda, xv,
Reagan administration, 281–82
about, 91–92
xviiin2, 9, 87n51
real definition, 6
achieving peace, 338–39
damage control, 198
The Rebel (Camus), 160
analogy and scope, 97
ethics, 195–200
Red Nightmare (film), 28, 83, 281
appeal to wants, 92–93
government information, 284,
reflective equilibrium, 143
appealing to the masses, 76–77
290
reflexology, 74
atrocity propaganda, 46,
Hill and Knowlton campaign,
regarding others, 171–72
64–71, 206–12
205–12
regarding ourselves, 171
attention, 74, 93–94
Ivy Lee, 200–05
Reimann, Viktor, 89n95
BP report, 60
propaganda, 12
religion
credibility, 95–96
World War I, 31n1
advertising, 189, 191–92
disguising sources, xv, xviiin2
See also advertising
autonomy, 179
emotional appeals, 94–95,
Public Relations Society of
begging the question, 112
168–70, 206–07, 237
America, 197–98, 201
censorship, 220–21
exclusive alternatives, 79
Public Service Employment Act,
consent, 179
framing, 97–99
287
deontological theories, 141–42
morally evasive language, 97
publicity, 203
dirty hands arguments, 158–59
out of context quotes, 89n94,
publishing, 186, 269
divine favour, 16–17, 44,
108–09
Punaste Lippude All, 89–90n113
45–46, 240
photomontage, 10
Punch, 96, 98
education, 32n45, 46–47
propaganda analysis, 336–37
punishment, 45, 142
emotional appeals, 95
propaganda of integration, 37
ethics, 140, 142, 175
repetition, 70, 82, 166, 258
Qanbar, Entifadh, 298
happiness, 93
rumour circulation, 52
qualifying performative, 100–01
lying, 147
slogans, 70
Quarterly Review of Doublespeak,
propaganda, 10, 59
truth, 70
15
symbols, 45–46
victim hegemony, 36
Quebec Consumer Protection
Tea Party movement, 20
See also language manipulation
Act, 258
truth, 225–27
propaganda types, agitation pro-
Quebec Press Council, 277
World War II, 114
paganda, 28
Quebec referendum, 121, 124,
See also morality
Propagandes (El ul), 22
290–91
Rembar, Charles, 236
The Provision of Government
Quebecor Media, 276–77, 315–16,
Rendon group, 297
Information (Wal ), 286
342n35
repetition, 70, 82, 166, 258
Psychological Operations in
Quennell, William, 104,
Republic (Plato), 143, 162
Guerilla Warfare (CIA), 21
135–36n16
responsibility, 159–60, 181n41
psychology
Quine, W.V.O., 116
rhetoric, 35–36, 38–39, 117–18
psychological availability
Quintilian, 73, 169
Rhetoric (Aristotle), 36, 39–42,
errors, 133–35
Quintus Cicero, 43–44
86n21, 195
psychological influences, 12, 185
quotations, 41, 108–09
Rice, Condaleeza, 296
public journalism, 320–23
Richard v. Time, 258
public opinion
Raazk, Mudhafer, 310
Richardson, Boyce, 311
appearances, 47
radio, 61–62, 79, 80–81
Riefenstahl, Leni, 78
democracy, 239–41
Rand, Ayn, 259
The Right to Know (Ponting), 282
fluctuation of, 128
Rand, Ivan C., 240
Rights of Man (Paine), 218
law, 217–18
Randolph Hearst, William, 55
RJR-MacDonald Inc. v. Attorney
meshing fact with, 109–10
randomness, 120–21
General of Canada, 265
Napoleon Bonaparte, 50–52
Rappleye, Charles, 25
Robert the Monk, 46
propaganda, 7–8
rapport, 41
Roberts, John, 292, 293
sociological propaganda, 27–28 rational propaganda, 29
Rockefeller, John D., Jr., 202
See also groups; opinion polls
rational reconstruction, 6
Romney, George, 332
public relations
Ravignat, Mathieu, 320
Romney, Mitt, 78
about, 2–3
Rawls, John, 143
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 1, 2, 83,
codes of ethics, 197–99
Raymond of Pennacourt, 156–57
120–21
commercial speech, 229–32
Raz, Joseph, 243–44
Rosen, Jay, 321
Read, James Morgan, 68
Rosner, Karl, 66
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Ross, Thomas, 215n45
slogans, 47, 70
Strategy of Terror (Taylor), 80–81
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 48, 230
Smal wood, Joey, 52
subject matter, 172
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Smith, Bruce L., 9
The Subject Matter and Goals
(RCMP), 163
Smith, Donald, 100
of Social Psychology
Royal Commission on
Snowden, Edward, xvi
(Bekhterev), 74
Newspapers (Kent
social benefit, 224
subversive propaganda, 28
Commission), 271–77
Sociétés populaires, 49
Subway, 189
Rubin, Norman, 199–200
sociological propaganda, 27–28
Suggestion and Its Role in Social
Rubinstein, Shimon, 88n79<
br />
Socrates, 38–39, 143, 180–81n28
Life (Bekhterev), 74
rumour circulation, 52
Solove, Daniel J., 330
Sumner, Wayne, 252
Rumsfeld, Donald, 165, 296, 310
Somalia affair, 304n96
Sun Media, 276–77, 342n35
Russell, Bertrand, 9, 69
sources, 211, 335
surveillance, xvi, 334
Southam, 273
Syad, Parveez, 329
Salisbury, Harrison, 87n52
Spanish American War, 55
syllogisms, 40
Sal inger, Pierre, 329
Spanish Civil War, 15–16, 116–17
Sylvain, John, 108
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 16, 181n41
special pleading, 110
Scarborough, Norma, 127–28
Special Senate Committee on
Taking the Risk Out of Democracy
“Schlageter” (Johst), 89n101
Mass Media, 285
(Carey), 326
Schmidt, Susan, 309
speeches, 21
Tallentyre, S.G., 218
Schopenhauer, Arthur, 116
Spenser, Edmund, 47–48
tar sands, 115
Schroeder, Gerhard, 299
Stanfield, Robert, 166
Task Force on Government
science
Stanley, Julia, 99–100, 135n9
Information, 284–86
advertising, 193
Stanton, Edwin, 54
Taylor, Edmund L., 80–81
credibility, 95–96, 104
statistics
Taylor, Richard, 10
El ul, 22–23
about, 118–19
Tea Party movement, xvi, 20,
Nazi propaganda, 16–17, 32n41
bell curve differences, 133
32n44, 84, 102
rational propaganda, 29
card-stacking, 105
The Technological Society (El ul),
religion, 140
censorship of, 236
22–23
technique, 23
fabrication of data, 132–33
telegraph propaganda, 58, 61–62
tobacco advertising, 267
false cause, 111
telemarketing, 261
scope, 97
“Gee Whiz” graphs, 132
television
Scott, Janet, 244n10
late nineteenth-century, 53–54
ABC news, 207
Scott, Walter Dill, 185
one-dimensional figures, 131–32
Fifth Estate, 206, 214n43
Seigenthaler, John, 343n61
psychological availability
Teneycke, Kory, 277
selective omission, 107–08
errors, 133–35
Tennyson, Alfred, xvii
self-development and social ben-
rational propaganda, 29
testimonials, 103–04, 192–93
efit, 224
semi-attached figure, 130–31
Thatcher, Margaret, 163, 282
self-serving interests, negative
testimonial, 104
Thomson, Kenneth, 276
definitions, 7–9
well-chosen average, 129–30
Thomson Newspapers, 272
selfishness, 142–43, 259
See also opinion polls
Thomson, Oliver, 35, 38
semi-attached figures, 130–31
Statler Hotels, 204
throttling, 325
September 11, 2001 attacks, xv, xvi, Stedman, Edmund, 54
Through the Looking Glass
79, 92–93, 97, 135n2, 295–97
Steiner, George, 25, 154,
(Carrol ), 6
Shaw Communications, 324
180–81n28
Thucydides, 37
Shaw, George Bernard, 224,
Stephen, James Fitzjames, 150,
Tidningen, 81
245n22, 307
181n29, 218, 221–22, 230,
Tillman, Pat, 311
Shaw v. Director of Public
232–34, 244n2, 245n14,
Tkachev, Peter, 71–72
Prosecutions (1961), 234–35
245n22
To Know and Be Known, 285
“Shooting an Elephant” (Orwell),
stereotypes, 19, 25, 47–48, 97–98
To the Lighthouse (Woolf ), 154–55
14
advertising, 187
tobacco industry
Shoppers Drug Mart, 202
Stevenson, Adlai, 299
advertising, 99, 187, 194, 232,
Sidgwick, Henry, 152
Stevenson, Charles, 7
264–68
Simpson, Jeffrey, 332
Steyn, Mark, 298
public relations, 202
Simpsons Ltd., 260
still photography. See photography Toulmin, Stephen, 156–57
Sinclair, Upton, 164, 255
Stone, I.F., 210–11, 281, 322–23
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“Toward a General Theory of
The Valour and the Horror (film),
Weimann, Gabriel, 301n12
the First Amendment”
108–09
Weiss, Bernhard, 77
(Emerson), 241
verbs, 21
Welch, David, xvi
transfer, 103
vertical propaganda, 29
Wellington House, 56–59
Treatise of Human Nature
Vicary, James M., 213n4
Wells, H.G., 56
(Hume), 157
victim hegemony, 36
Wendell Holmes, Oliver, Jr., 229
Trebilcock, Michael J., 262
Vietnam War, 16, 112, 333
Wessel, Horst, 78
Triumph of the Will (film), 78
A View of the Present State of
What Is to Be Done? (Lenin), 72
Trudeau, Garry, 329
Ireland (Spenser), 47–48
Whately, Richard, 168–72, 174
Trudeau, Justin, 282
Vimy Ridge monument, 340
Wheeler, Michael, 121, 125, 126,
Trudeau, Pierre El iot, 89n94, 166, Volkswagen Canada Inc., 192
127, 128
237, 300
Voltaire, 218
whistle-blowers, xv–xvi, 333–35
truth
von Clausewitz, Carl, 52–53
White, E.B., 54–55, 87n51
Amway, 12, 32n24
von Hintze (Admiral), 65–66
Whitney v. California, 239–40
background consensus, 167
von Papen, Franz, 78
Why Leaders Lie (Mearsheimer), 176
concern for, 145–46, 212–13
WikiLeaks, 329, 333–35,
defining propaganda, 7–9
Waino, Carol, 279–80
343–44n67
doing the truth, 150, 180n20
Waldegrave, William, 152
Wilde, Oscar, 7
illusions, 22
Walker, Julian, 272
Wile, Frederic William, 68
mass media, xvii–xviii
Walkerton, Ontario, 253, 319
Wilson, F.W., 88n60
naming, 101–02
Wal , D.F., 288–90
Wilson, Joseph, 334
Nazi propaganda, 16–17
Walton, Douglas, 13, 177
Wilson, W.A., 291
objectivity, 177–78
Walz, Jay, 280
Winn, Conrad, 301n12
Orwell, 16–17
Walzer, Michael, 160
Winner, Langdon, 341n20
partial truth, 226, 245n12
War Pictorial, 63
Winsor, Hugh, 119–20
propaganda, xvii, 9, 29, 70
&nb
sp; Ward, Stephen, 177–78
witch-hunts, 181–82n57
public relations, 203–04
Wark, Wesley, 299
Withers, Frank, 272
religion, 225–27
Warner, Jack, 28, 83
women, 187
silencing of, 224–26
Warren, David, 279
Woolf, Virginia, 154–55, 181n29
Socrates, 38–39
wars
work, 26
truth maximization, 177
Afghanistan, 311, 334
World War I
truth-reliability quotient, 337
American Civil War, 53–55
advertising, 31n1
truthiness, xvi, 146, 180n9
Boer War, 55
Canada, 38
TWA Flight 800, 329, 343n54
Cold War, 28, 83
ethics of conscience, 159
twisting and distortion, 109
Cuban missile crisis, 16
German propaganda, 56, 57
Twitter, 315
Falkland War, 107–08, 282
modern propaganda, 2
Two Concepts of Liberty (Berlin),
Gulf War, 205–12
See also British propaganda in
268–69
Iraq War, xv, 2, 31n2, 85n3,
World War I; wars
tyranny, 242–43
88n64, 165, 206–12,
World War II
309–10
atrocity corpse story, 71
Uday, Anmar, 310
party feeling, 171
Canadian government, 282,
undecided respondents, 121–22
Spanish American War, 55
283–84
unethical behaviour, 217
Spanish Civil War, 15–16,
ethics of propaganda, 172–73
United States
116–17
imputations of intention, 114
Air Force, 32n45
Vietnam War, 16, 112, 333
invasion of Poland, 36
American Civil War, 53–55
See also Nazi propaganda;
The Valour and the Horror,
propaganda, 27, 210
World War I; World
108–09
sociological propaganda, 28
War II
See also wars
United States v. Associated Press,
Wartime Information Board
Wynne, Kathleen, 342n35
240, 243
(WIB), 270, 282
Unsafe at Any Speed (Nader), 255
Washington Post, 281–82, 309–10,
Xerox, 87n51
Urban II (Pope), 46
309–11
utilitarianism, 143, 152, 223–24
Washington Times, 300
Yankelovich, Daniel, 321
Weber, Antonio, 114
validation, 238
Weber, Max, 44, 159–60
Zundel, Ernst, 248–49, 301n12
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Document Outline
Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface to the First Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
Chapter 1: Why Study Propaganda? INTRODUCTION
DEFINITION
TWO MAJOR PROPAGANDA THEORISTS: GEORGE ORWELL AND JACQUES ELLUL
PLAN OF THE BOOK
Chapter 2: History of Propaganda INTRODUCTION