2020: A Propaganda Masterpiece | Perspectives on the Pandemic XVII

   

Perspectives on the Pandemic

 

Published on Jul 1, 2021

Mark Crispin Miller, Professor of Media Studies, New York University June 10, 2021 Dumbo, New York

Interview by John Kirby

Editing by Francis Karogodins

Research by Evan Dominguez, Billy Clayton Miller

“Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government,” wrote Edward Bernays, the father of modern propaganda. In part one of Episode 17, Mark Crispin Miller, professor of Media Studies at New York University, discusses the propaganda onslaught that defined the year 2020, when what was dismissed one week is confirmed the next, and why questioning official narratives "necessarily means taking ‘conspiracy theory’ seriously.”