Selling the Korean War: Propaganda, Politics, and Public Opinion in the United States, 1950–1953 — Who Controls the War Story?
Who controls the meaning of a war when the government, military, journalists, politicians, and public are all competing to define it?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using Selling the Korean War: Propaganda, Politics, and Public Opinion in the United States, 1950–1953 by Steven Casey as our lens, this investigation examines the extraordinary information problem created by America’s first major Cold War limited conflict.
The Truman administration wanted to maintain public support without generating panic or political pressure for a wider war…
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