The Institute For Propaganda Analysis (1937-1942) is an interesting and unmentioned case - their agenda was to examine all propaganda efforts (including adverti

The Institute For Propaganda Analysis (1937-1942) is an interesting and unmentioned case - their agenda was to examine all propaganda efforts (including advertising) and expose its internal mechanisms, which they classified into about seven categories IIRC. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_Propaganda_Analysis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_Propaganda_Analy... Closing statement (1942): "The publication of dispassionate analyses of all kinds of propaganda, 'good' and 'bad', is easily misunderstood during a war emergency, and more important, the analyses could be misused for undesirable purposes by persons opposing the government’s effort."