An obnoxious

example of indirect propaganda in the news and a new style of reporting that the mainstream media is trying to normalize.

You're listening to the propaganda reports drive time at Newsblast.

I'm Brad Minkley.

Indirect propaganda, it's a type of propaganda that when done well it can go unnoticed by

those who are being subjected to it. At the start of World War I the United States

was neutral and most Americans that were polled wanted to stay that way. The British, however, well they had

different plans for us. They needed the US not just to join the war but to join it

on their side. So they conducted a propaganda operation targeting certain Americans.

This was carried out through their wartime propaganda bureau called the Wellington House.

What they did was set up basically sleeper cells around the country where they sent well known

and admired writers in the literary world to the US to cozy up to influential

Americans in the world of academia, politics, and entertainment. The job of these British

writers was to be a bug in the ear of these Americans. To make subtle assertions or

comments about the war that portrayed the British favorably and their

war efforts as moral. They would also do things like accidentally leaving letters

from home or British newspaper clippings that the Wellington House sent them just

laying around for their American friends to happen to find ones that portrayed

atrocities being committed against the British stuff like like that, stuff that would leave a powerful

impression on whoever it was that found it, with a goal of all of this being to create with the propaganda

literature, the propaganda literature, so pretentious, calls resonance.

So resonance in that propaganda literature, that literature, is when the target of a propaganda campaign believes that the propagated idea

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