The orchestration of press, radio and television to create a continuous, lasting and total environment renders the influence of propaganda virtually unnoticed precisely because it creates a constant environment.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster.
Propaganda must appeal to mankind's better judgment and to the necessary belief in a better future. For this belief, the valley of the shadow of death is but a war station on the road to the blessed summit.
Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.
Radio, in a way, is preaching.
Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.
For the broadcast business to be successful, viewers need to be not merely interested in our political melodramas, they have to be in an absolute state about them - emotionally invested in the outcome and frightened not to watch what happens next.
The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.
That's basically what's going on now: Everything is propaganda.
We're learning a tremendous amount of propaganda from television and the Internet.
It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale.