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See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_propaganda_during_World_War_II https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_propaganda_during_Wor...
by h2odragon 3y ago
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_propaganda_during_World_War_II https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_propaganda_during_Wor...
- glenstein 3y agoI think a good rule of thumb for wiki citations is that they should facilitate a deeper dive into specifics rather than kick things back up to a higher level of generality. In short they should zoom in rather than zoom out. It doesn't appear that the rumor clinics mentioned in the article bear any connection to the government-run initiatives discussed in the Wiki article. There's one section on "careless talk" but it is much less detailed than the Smithsonian article and not necessarily about the same thing.
- h2odragon 3y agoThe public embrace of propaganda and indoctrination in WW2 was so fierce that it resulted in "Normalcy" chants later. The connection between Government efforts and newspaper columnists might not have been explicit in this case; but the mood being set was very much part of the reason people were willing to participate in such excesses of orthodoxy.