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Nope. Go to a large Chinese police/tax building and you'll see a sign for the "Propaganda Department". Part of me respects them for being honest about it. I
by prewett 11y ago
Nope. Go to a large Chinese police/tax building and you'll see a sign for the "Propaganda Department". Part of me respects them for being honest about it.
I think probably my (engineers in general?) distaste for "marketing" and "public relations" and "spin" is the propaganda (telling you what we want you to think) component that is often there. It sounds nicer if you say PR, and in the US we tend not to be quite so blatantly at odds with the facts, but PR and marketing are often trying to accomplish the same thing. At least the Chinese are honest about what they are doing.
- hebdo 11y agoIt is so easy to forget how did the term Public Relations come into wide use. > Due to negative implications surrounding the word propaganda because of its use by the Germans in World War I, he promoted the term "Public Relations". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays#Life_and_influences https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays#Life_and_influe... For more I recommend the BBC documentary "The Century of the Self".