Propaganda vs Post-Truth. What's the difference?
100 years separates the propaganda strategies of George Creel, America's chairperson of the Committee on Public Information, and the post-truth strategies of Donald Trump, America's 45th president.
Using immigration as the comparator, this podcast analyzes the tactics of American propaganda during the First World War, and the tactics of post-truth by Donald Trump.
Using speeches by Donald Trump and the words of George Creel, as well as historical analysis, books, peer-reviewed journals, and reporting, I delve into the strategies of both to come up with a conclusion that surprised even myself.
Follow my research and analysis as I journey into the two strategies. Couched under a political communication theory called The Spiral of Silence: https://noelle-neumann.de/scientific-work/spiral-of-silence/.
My research:
This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality Hardcover – Aug. 6 2019 by Peter Pomerantsev (Author)
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media Paperback – Jan. 15 2002 by Edward S. Herman (Author), Noam Chomsky (Author)
Manipulating the Masses: Woodrow Wilson and the Birth of American Propaganda Hardcover – Oct. 21 2020 by John Maxwell Hamilton (Author)
Poulakidakos, S., Veneti, A., & Fangonikolopoulos, C. (2018). Post-truth, propaganda and the transformation of the spiral of silence. International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics, 14(3), 367–382. https://doi.org/10.1386/macp.14.3.367_1
Post-Truth Paperback – Feb. 16 2018 by Lee McIntyre (Author)
How we advertised America - 1920 by George Creel
Anand, B. N. (2017, January 5). The U.S. Media’s Problems Are Much Bigger than Fake News and Filter Bubbles. Harvard Business Review. https://hbr.org/2017/01/the-u-s-medias-problems-are-much-bigger-than-fake-news-and-filter-bubbles
Alamillo, R., Haynes, C., & Madrid, R. (2019). Framing and immigration through the Trump era. Sociology Compass, 13(5), e12676. https://doi.org/10.1111/soc4.12676
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