"When I came back to the United States, I decided that if you could use propaganda for war, you could certainly use it for peace. And 'propaganda' got to be a bad word because of the Germans using it, so what I did was to try and find some other words so we found the words 'public relations'."
- Edward Bernays
This is the first part of a two part clip about a man named Edward Bernays who saw how propaganda in war time could also be used to manipulate the masses during peace time, only in this sense, doing it for commercial gain.
This is part of a documentary called "The Century of Self" by Adam Curtis and the BBC. You can download this entire documentary in four parts for free at http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=century%20of%20the%20self%20adam%20curtis
Category: People Uploaded: September 19th, 2007 @ 7:15 pm Author:LaneCh
