Edward Bernays, an Austrian-American nephew of Sigmund Freud, played a crucial role in the effective development and use of public persuasion campaigns in the US to influence public opinions and behavior. He felt this manipulation was necessary in society, which he regarded as irrational and danger...
More specifically, the coverage of the Middle East: ISIS, the beheadings of journalists, Iran’s nuclear ambitions, Syrian chemical weapons attack as a pretext for war, the Sunni-Shiite divide, and Palestinian resistance — it seems almost instantly the naïve and evil preconceptions...