At 1:28 PM 1/30/96, Timothy C. May wrote:

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I'd say _all_ news, not just software news, is P.R. controlled, these days. You can largely hold Edward L. Bernays, the "father of public relations" (who just died last year) responsible for that--or the societal conditions that allowed Bernays to do his thing. Bernays developed expertise in "engineering of consent" turned the news into a commercialized and

Interesting term, similar to Chomsky's "Manufacturing Consent" (which obviously must've come later...).

Chomsky took the phrase from a book by Walter Lippman, published I think in 1922; the book's name escapes me now. Ted