Year: 1971
Type: dissertation
Abstract: Further reproduction prohibited w ithout perm ission.came to be so important during the World War that it was adopted officially as an indispensable adjunct of the wargovernment staff.This is the basic difference between the World War and all previous use of propaganda."^®Though offered primarily in reference to British activities, that statement applies equally well to the United States, because American intervention was shortly followed by the establishment of the Committee on Public Information.The authors of the principal history of the Committee have described it as "America's first 'propaganda ministryPresident Wilson created it by executive order on April 13, 1917, and appointed as its civilian chairman a journalist, George Creel.The secretaries of state, war, and the navy were the other members.The original purpose of the CPI was to direct the handling of news from the government, but soon Creel "moved into the far less restricted field of opinion management, invented nev/ techniques and perfected old ones, and first to last
Author: Howell, Robert Thomas
Institution: Louisiana State University
Language: English
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W4282831492