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How Woodrow Wilson’s Propaganda Machine Changed American Journalism

Posted by JK on 7/2/2025, 14:46:32

The media are still feeling the impact of an executive order signed in 1917 that created ‘the nation’s first ministry of information’

When the United States declared war on Germany 100 years ago, the impact on the news business was swift and dramatic.

In its crusade to “make the world safe for democracy,” the Wilson administration took immediate steps at home to curtail one of the pillars of democracy – press freedom – by implementing a plan to control, manipulate and censor all news coverage, on a scale never seen in U.S. history.

Following the lead of the Germans and British, Wilson elevated propaganda and censorship to strategic elements of all-out war. Even before the U.S. entered the war, Wilson had expressed the expectation that his fellow Americans would show what he considered “loyalty.”

Immediately upon entering the war, the Wilson administration brought the most modern management techniques to bear in the area of government-press relations. Wilson started one of the earliest uses of government propaganda. He waged a campaign of intimidation and outright suppression against those ethnic and socialist papers that continued to oppose the war. Taken together, these wartime measures added up to an unprecedented assault on press freedom.

“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society,” Bernays wrote a few years after the war. “Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government.”

All in all, the CPI proved quite effective in using advertising and PR to instill nationalistic feelings in Americans. Indeed, many veterans of the CPI’s campaign of persuasion went into careers in advertising during the 1920s.

The full bundle of techniques pioneered by Wilson during the Great War were updated and used by later presidents when they sent U.S. forces into battle.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-woodrow-wilsons-propaganda-machine-changed-american-journalism-180963082/

That would be these guys..

Posted by CHE on 7/2/2025, 14:59:07, in reply to "How Woodrow Wilson’s Propaganda Machine Changed American Journalism"

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Faux news still hates Trump

Posted by JK on 7/2/2025, 15:03:06, in reply to "That would be these guys.."

Like the rest of the deep state aligned legacy media

NewsMax is far more supportive, and NewsNation was the first to call the election for Trump.

Posted by Austin Powerz on 7/2/2025, 15:26:18, in reply to "Faux news still hates Trump"

FoxNews Polling, for example, is somehow almost always the most Trump-negative pollster.

The really sad part

Posted by mender on 7/2/2025, 18:56:51, in reply to "Faux news still hates Trump"

of the population listens to Donald Trump and believes
that he has set aside doing what Donald Trump wants
to do because he thinks it’s good for Donald Trump n
is now selling his version of the Bible along with many
other products because it thinks you think it’s gonna
make America Grate by giving him your money?

Like old cheese, that’s the sad part.

Does it bother you that Biden never put his wealth into a blind trust, either? nt

Posted by Austin Powerz on 7/2/2025, 19:21:45, in reply to "The really sad part"

Hmmmmmm?

absolutely

Posted by mender on 7/2/2025, 21:41:09, in reply to "Does it bother you that Biden never put his wealth into a blind trust, either? nt"

And it doesn’t matter that I never supported
old Joe because I think all politicians should
retire at age 65.

On the other hand, I sent money to Donald and
he sent me a pair of gold sneakers and a Bible
signed with his auto pen….

I just hope Donald changes his essence and
the basic tenets of his philosophy of taking
advantage of any situation for his benefit
and gain, with the knowledge that if you
repeat a lie often enough people will begin
to believe it.

Do you know who it was that started
that philosophy back in the 30s?*

On the other hand, since you seem to like to
excuse the presence by looking to the past,
When is the last time that you believed with
the entirety of your brain that Trump was
being honest when he says that he’s doing
what he does for America n the Americans
who lived there, including you and me?

That being said, can you man up and name 2
of the 3 things that you’ve heard Trump say
that has caused n given you concern ?

absolutely

Posted by mender on 7/2/2025, 21:45:28, in reply to "Does it bother you that Biden never put his wealth into a blind trust, either? nt"

And it doesn’t matter that I never supported
old Joe because I think all politicians should
retire at age 65.

On the other hand, I sent money to Donald and
he sent me a pair of gold sneakers and a Bible
signed with his auto pen….

I just hope Donald changes his essence and
the basic tenets of his philosophy of taking
advantage of any situation for his benefit
and gain, with the knowledge that if you
repeat a lie often enough people will begin
to believe it.

Do you know who it was that started
that philosophy back in the 30s?*

On the other hand, since you seem to like to
excuse the presence by looking to the past,
When is the last time that you believed with
the entirety of your brain that Trump was
being honest when he says that he’s doing
what he does for America n the Americans
who live there, including you and me?

That being said, can you man up and name 2
of the 3 things that you’ve heard Trump say
that has caused n given you concern ?

* No, it wasn’t Adolf.

How does Donald Trump's figuratively painting a target on his back for leftists to use lawfare

Posted by Austin Powerz on 7/2/2025, 23:44:57, in reply to "absolutely "

against by running, then winding up as an actual target with 3 actual attempts on his life help Donald Trump, exactly - even if he sells a dozen watches? Ever hear the saying "The package isn't worth the freight?"

BTW - * It was the guy who said "We own der world und space"

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