Ep. 12: Propaganda (The Home Front)

[Contains explicit content] As casualties mounted abroad, the initial shock and outpouring of patriotism began to wane in the U.S. President Roosevelt put the American propaganda machine into overdrive, leveraging Hollywood magic, crafty ad men, and strategic censorship to keep Americans engaged and convinced of the war’s righteousness.

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Maintaining morale

This was an interesting episode and was difficult to listen to with modern ears. The motivational aspects sounds fine but the deceptive aspects are hard to forgive with modern sensibilities. Even at the time many were distrustful of the propaganda but for different reasons: they were still getting over being burned by it during WW I.