The Watcher’s Council has announced its winners for last week. First place in the Council category was Council newcomer The Noisy Room’s The Herding of America – Enlightened Despotism. This was one of those posts from which I learned something about which I previously knew very little if anything, in this case about the history of propaganda.
First place in the non-Council category was Sense of Events with Seahawks Fall To Climate Of Hate In Chicago. Rev. Sensing was one of the first major bloggers (in his former incarnation) to link to my stuff. I see he hasn’t lost his touch.
You can see the full results here.
The article on Bernays forgets to mention Ivy Lee, the other PR giant of the age (son wrote a paper on this for class last year so we read up on it). I would think the modern inheritor of the mantle of those two would be Ailes rather than Sunstein. I would not claim that either is the most powerful and dangerous person in the U.S. People always forget that Paranoia will destroy ya.
Steve
Steve:
As a general rule my eyes glaze over and my attention wanders at the point at which any post begins to talk about “the Left” or “the Right”. I take what I find interesting and worthwhile in them away with me and ignore the rest.