Phronesis in Pieces

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The Foresight Saga

Bill Schmitt
Sep 1, 2022
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Phronesis FileThanks for reading Phronesis in Pieces! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. The prescient 1977 book Mediaworld, written by John M. Phelan, who taught my Broadcasting 101 course at Fordham, defined propaganda as “the control of behavior through the control of belief.” Phelan wrote, “The evil of propaganda is not that it is false. It is its indifference to the very question of truth. Human expression is seen merely as a means, as an instrument, to get people to do what is desired.”

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