Toggle navigation No Agenda. Propaganda is information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to influence opinions. Propaganda is not only in advertising; it is also in radio, newspaper, posters, books, and anything else that might be sent out to the widespread public.
The government enlisted the help of citizens and children to help promote war bonds and stamps to help stimulate the economy. To keep the prices of war supplies down, the U. The activities of the WWB were so extensive that it has been called the "greatest propaganda machine in history".
In lasting until prominent US policy makers launched a domestic propaganda campaign aimed at convincing the U. It dealt with posters, press, movies, exhibitions, and produced often slanted material conforming to US wartime purposes. Other large and influential non-governmental organizations during the war and immediate post war period were the Society for the Prevention of World War III and the Council on Books in Wartime. Much of this propaganda was directed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation under J.
Edgar Hoover, who himself wrote the anti-communist tract Masters of Deceit. Bruce Franklin and the Venceremos Organization. War on Drugs[edit]The National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign, originally established by the National Narcotics Leadership Act of ,[3][4] but now conducted by the Office of National Drug Control Policy under the Drug-Free Media Campaign Act of ,[5] is a domestic propaganda campaign designed to "influence the attitudes of the public and the news media with respect to drug abuse" and for "reducing and preventing drug abuse among young people in the United States".
Department of Defense launched an information operation, colloquially referred to as the Pentagon military analyst program. The campaign was divided in phases; the first of which consisted of five mini-documentaries for television, radio, and print with shared values messages for key Muslim countries. These operations fall under the International Broadcasting Bureau, the successor of the United States Information Agency, established in They broadcast mainly to countries where the United States finds that information about international events is limited, either due to poor infrastructure or government censorship.
