The FV Problem = A Press Problem

[t byfield]

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

>>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