Bloggo Adornomente

I think you have to make a distinction between America's attitude to communication and involvement with communication before World War I and after World War I. It's not just that the technology changes, which it does, and it's not just that America's hold on communications changes, for example with the relocation of the centre of world film-making to America as a result of World War I.

It's also that something happened during World War I and that something is the involvement with propaganda. The Creel Committee, during World War I was dominant in the use and development of propaganda in the United States, and in fact produced a very boastful report about how powerful their propaganda efforts had been. Now what they did in America of course, was to produce a new sensitivity to the potential of propaganda, the manipulation of opinion if you like, to influence the way in which a society developed.
- Graeme Osborn