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Index
INDEX
abortion
propaganda, 12–13
Animal Farm (Orwell), 14–15
censorship, 223
religion, 189, 191–92
Anonymous (group), 328–29
demonstrations, 244n10
subliminal messages, 213n4
anonymous interviews, 203
language manipulation, 101
tobacco advertising, 99, 187,
Apotex, Inc., 23
opinion polls, 127–28
194, 232, 264–68
appealing to the masses, 76–77
statistics, 104, 135–36n16
World War I, 31n1
appearances, 47
The Abuse of Casuistry (Jonson
See also public relations
Aquinas, Thomas (Saint), lying,
and Toulmin), 156–57
“Advertising and Ethics” (Nelson),
144, 147, 150
accident, 113
252–53
Areopagitica (Milton), 219
ad hominem, 110
Advertising Standards Canada
Aristotle
Adams, Tom, 305n112
/>
(ASC), 190–94, 263–64,
about, 39–42
advertising
305n112
accident, 113
about, 183–86
Afghanistan, 311, 334
audience perceptions, 72–73
advertorials, 184
Against All Enemies (Clarke), 296,
credibility, 174, 201
advocacy advertising, 184, 282
305n114
proving truth, 214n27
branding, 13
agitation propaganda, 28, 72
Aristotle (works), Rhetoric, 36,
censorship, 242
Ailes, Roger, 277
39–42, 86n21, 195
children, 188–90, 193, 264
Al-Haideri, Adnan Ihsan Saeed, 298
“Art and Politics” (Hitler), 77
commercial speech, 229–32
al Qaddafi, Mu’ammer, 281
Ashcroft, John, 135n2
consumer protection, 255–63
al-Qaeda, xv, 135n2, 213, 295–97
Asper, Izzy, 272, 276, 324
cultural attitudes, 183–84, 189
Al-Sabah, Nayirah, 206, 207, 208,
Asquith, Herbert, 57
dependency effect, 194
211, 214n43, 215n45
Assange, Julian, xvi, 329, 333
emotional appeals, 40, 94–95,
Al-Sabah, Saud al-Nasser, 206
assertions, 107
189
al-Sumait, Abdel-Rahman, 215n48
Associated Press, 240–41, 243
endorsements, 40
al-Sumait, Yahya, 207
associating, 101, 166, 181–82n57
false belief, 194–95
Alcock, Rutherford, 245n14
assumed sale techniques, 261
film placements, 188
All Quiet on the Western Front
Astroturf, xv, xviiin2
framing, 99
(film), 77
( Astro) Turf Wars, xviiin2, 21
gambling mentality, 187–88
Allende, Salvador, 166
Athens, 36–43
government controls, 190–94,
Amano, Yukiya, 301
atrocity propaganda
252–68
American Association of Political
baby of Courbeck Loo, 88n60
government information,
Consultants, 119
British propaganda during
290–95
American Civil War, 53–55
WWI, 64–65
happiness, 194–95
American way of life, 28
corpse factory story, 65–71, 207
harms from, 186–94, 230–31
Amnesty International, 88n64,
Crusades, 46
Internet, 185–86, 196
206, 207–08, 215n48
Iraq war, 206–12
legislative control, 190–94
amphiboly, 113
Atrocity Propaganda (Read), 68
misleading advertising, 186–87, Amway, 12, 32n24
Atta, Mohamed, 92–93
190–93, 253–54
analogy, 112
attention, 74, 93–94
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Augustine (Saint), lying, 144,
Bracken, Brendan, 4, 11
Canadian Advertising Advisory
145–47, 147–48, 150, 153, 154
Brampton Daily Times, 279
Board (CAAB), 190, 263
Austin, J.L., 167
Brand (Ibsen), 176
Canadian Advertising
autonomy, 178–79
Brandeis, Louis D., 239–40
Foundation (CAF), 263
defining propaganda, 7–9
Brasserie Stroh, 191
Canadian Association of
illusions, 22
Bre-X, 95–96
Broadcasters (CAB), 190
lying, 153
Brisbane, Arthur, 31n2
Canadian Association of
propaganda definitions, 12
Britain
University Teachers, 23
religion, 179
British Library, xvi
Canadian Broadcasting
violation of, 179
late nineteenth-century ethics,
Corporation (CBC), 109
150–52
Canadian Daily Newspaper
background consensus, 167
Britische Propaganda (Bühr), 71
Association (CDNA),
Bahbahani, Ibrahim, 207, 215n48
British Propaganda during the War
303n62
Balthasar, Hans Urs von, 150
1914-1918, 87n55
Canadian Newspaper
band wagon, 105–06
British propaganda in World War I
Association, 303n62
Barendt, Eric, 239
about, 55–56
Canadian Public Relations
Barnum, P.T., 195
atrocity propaganda, 64–65,
Society (CPRS), 198, 199
Battleship Potemkin (film), 73
88n60
hate propaganda, 248–52
BCE (Bell Canada Enterprises), 313
corpse factory story, 65–71, 207
World War I, 38
Beatty, H. Perrin, 275, 293
Department of Information, 59 Cannetti, Elias, 77
Beauharnais v. Illinois, 250
films, 58, 59, 62–63
CanWest Global, 324
Beaverbrook (Lord), 56, 60
hospitality operations, 59, 60–61
card-stacking, 105
begging the question, 112
Ministry of Information, 60–61
Carey, Alex, 326
Being and Time (Heidegger), 14
publications and press work,
Carney, Pat, 293
Bekhterev, Vladimir Mikhailovic, 74
58–59, 62
Caro, Robert, 341n20
Bell Canada, 257, 295, 313
radio and telegraph
Carrol , Lewis, 6
bell curve differences, 133
propaganda, 58, 61–62
categorical imperative, 148
Benedict (Saint), 26
still photography, 58, 63
casuistry, 155–56
Bennett, James Gordon, 203
Wellington House, 56–59
censorship
Berlin, Isaiah, 268–69
See also history; World War I
advertising, 242
Bernays, Edward, 9
Brooke, Francis, 297
education, 219–20
Best for Less, 260
Brüning (Chancellor), 78
Kent Commission, 271
Between the Lines (MacLean),
Bryce, James (Viscount), 64
morality, 218, 221, 222–23, 233,
106–10
Bryce Report, 56, 64–65
234–36
Bhopal disaster, 198
Buchan, John, 56, 59
Napoleon, 51
biased interpretation of responses, Bühr, Hans, 71
Nazi party, 77–79
127–28
Bureau of Public Information, 282
Orwel , 16
big lie, 71, 75–76
Burmese Days (Orwell), 14
religion, 220–21
The Billionaires’ Tea Party, xviiin2, Burt, Cyril, 132, 137n64
seventeenth century, 48
21
Bush, Chris, 320
slippery slope of, 242–43
bin Laden, Osama, 135n2
Bush, George W., 17
See also freedom of expression
Black, Conrad, 129, 276, 324
exclusive alternatives, 79
Center for Media and Democracy
Black, Hugo, 240–41
Internet misinformation, 329
(CMD), 328
Blair, Eric, 14
military deceptions, xv, 212–13, Central Intelligence Agency, 21,
Blair, Tony, 296
295
33n48
Blais, Jean-Jacques, 292
and propaganda, 2
Cernetig, Miro, 299
Boer War, 55
statistics, 131
Chafee, Zechariah, Jr., 268–71, 330
bogus polls, 128–29
Chalabi, Ahmed, 297–98
Bok, Sissela, 144, 152–54, 200
CA*net, 312–13
Chamberlain, Austen, 66
bold assertions, 107
Caesar, Augustus, 44–45, 86n27
character, 41
Bol inger, Dwight, 99–102
Camus, Albert, xi, 160, 311
Charity, Arthur, 320–21
Bonaparte, Napoleon, 50–52, 82
Canada
Charteris, John, xvii
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 150, 180n20
Advertising Standards Canada
Cheney, Dick, 296
Boucher v. The King, 240
(ASC), 190–94
Cheng Pao, 63
“Boys’ Weeklies” (Orwell), 19
Cherry, Zena, 135–36n16
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Chesney, Robert W., 323–24
Craig, Suzanne, 322
Dreyfus, Alfred, xvi, 173
Chesterton, G.K., xvii, xviiin9,
credibility, 40, 43, 61, 104, 329,
Dunton, Davidson, 277, 279, 303n75
18–19, 176, 321
343n61
Durham (Lord), 338–39
Chi-jui, Tuan, 65
Cree First Nation, 94
children, 149, 188–90, 193, 223,
La crise d’octobre (Pelletier), 284
e-mail, 328–29
228, 264
Crossman, Richard, 91
Easily Led (Thomson), 35
Chomsky, Noam, 27, 149
crowds. See groups
Eastwood, Clint, 78
Chopra, Shiv (Dr.), 287, 304n94
CRTC, 313, 315, 325
education
Chrétien, Jean, 17, 111, 299–300
The Crucible (Miller), 181–82n57
censorship, 219–20
Christian Science Monitor, 310
Crusades, 46
Ellul, 24
Chronicles of Dissent (Chomsky),
Cuban missile crisis, 16
French Revolution, 48
27
cultural attitudes, 189
Napoleon, 51
Churchill, Winston, 1, 4
Nazi propaganda, 80
Citizens for a Free Kuwait, 206,
damage control, 198
propaganda, 9–11, 29
208–09
Darkness at Noon (Koestler), 158–59
religion, 46–47
Clark, Christy, 121
data
Eidson, Tom, 208
Clarke, Richard A., 296, 305n114
fabrication, 132–33
Eisenhower, Dwight, 84
class, 18–19, 71–73
mining, xvi
El Baradei, Mohamed, 301
Classen, Hans, 164–65, 287,
DataCom Marketing Inc., 261