![]() Wilson was elected president on a platform of “Peace Without Victory.” During the First World War, the American population was mostly pacifistic and didn’t want to be involved in a European war. ![]() This latter definition is the result of a successful propaganda campaign, which has only strengthened in recent years.Ĭhomsky writes that the “first modern government propaganda operation” took place under the Woodrow Wilson Administration (11). His first definition of a democracy is one in which citizens can “participate in a meaningful way in the management of their own affairs and the means of information are open and free” (Chomsky 9).īut his second definition of a democracy is one in which the majority of the population are reduced to passivity and information is controlled in a narrow ideological framework (Chomsky 10). ![]() ![]() He begins by asking his readers what kind of a democracy they want to live in (Chomsky 9). In “Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda,” Noam Chomsky examines the development of propaganda in the United States. ![]()
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