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**pertikuss** · 09-04-2012, 04:22 AM

Yeah the word propaganda used to just mean dissemination of knowledge or information, it only got the negative connotation associated with it after WWI I think. Americans wanted to stay out of the war (WWI), they did not want to involve themselves in foreign wars (imagine if they were still like that). The American government employed a guy called Edward Bernays (the nephew of Sigmund Freud) to use Propaganda to make Americans feel that joining the European war was a good thing. He obviously succeeded and many Americans lost their lives.

09-04-2012, 04:22 AM	#3
pertikuss Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 383 Senior Member	Yeah the word propaganda used to just mean dissemination of knowledge or information, it only got the negative connotation associated with it after WWI I think. Americans wanted to stay out of the war (WWI), they did not want to involve themselves in foreign wars (imagine if they were still like that). The American government employed a guy called Edward Bernays (the nephew of Sigmund Freud) to use Propaganda to make Americans feel that joining the European war was a good thing. He obviously succeeded and many Americans lost their lives.
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