Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society Sep 2011 RSS

PR Guns for Hire: The Specter of Edward Bernays in Gadhafi’s Libya

Abstract

“Nearly a century later, Bernays’s troubling defense of anti-democratic communication as a central component of democratic governance reverberates in a recent public relations campaign to ‘enhance’ Gadhafi’s image.”

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Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society
Published
2011-09-09
Topics
multimodality

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