![]() ![]() ![]() That was a major achievement, and it led to a further achievement. They established a government propaganda commission, called the Creel Commission, which succeeded, within six months, in turning a pacifist population into a hysterical, war-mongering population which wanted to destroy everything German, tear the Germans limb from limb, go to war and save the world. ![]() The Wilson administration was actually committed to war and had to do something about it. The population was extremely pacifistic and saw no reason to become involved in a European war. Woodrow Wilson was elected President in 1916 on the platform "Peace Without Victory." That was right in the middle of the World War I. … the first modern government propaganda operation … was under the Woodrow Wilson Administration. Selections by Noam Chomsky Excerpted from < Media Control, 2002 ![]()
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