Edward bernays propaganda

Edward Bernays: PR & marketing quote.

Edward Bernays, a nephew of Sigmund Freud, is credited as the father of modern public relations and claimed he could shape public opinion.

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Edward Bernays - Propaganda

How Eddie Bernays got you to buy books, wear hairnets, and eat bacon for breakfast.One could argue that the birth of modern public relations is really the story of bacon and eggs. Prior to the 1920s, breakfast was toast and a cup of coffee. When a company called Beech-Nut Packing wanted to boost its bacon sales, they called PR man Edwards Bernays. Bernays didn't place ads in magazines or post billboards with catchy slogans. Instead, he commissioned a research study on the eating habits of…

Prophetic Huxley

In 1928, Edward Bernays, Sigmund Freud’s nephew and “inventor” of public relations, wrote Propaganda: The Public Mind in the Making. His thesis was that a democracy needed propaganda to educate itself and be educated. Propaganda was good and (literally) godly. Here is an excerpt from Propaganda where Bernays defines the word that he admitted “carries to many minds an unpleasant connotation.” Yet whether, in any instance, propaganda is good or bad depends upon the merit of

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