Elmer Davis Quotes

Elmer Holmes Davis was a news reporter, author, the Director of the United States Office of War Information during World War II and a Peabody Award recipient. Wikipedia  

✵ 13. January 1890 – 18. May 1958
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Elmer Davis Quotes

“The easiest way to inject a propaganda idea into most people’s minds is to let it go through the medium of an entertainment picture when they do not realize that they are being propagandized.”

As quoted in Hollywood Goes to War: How Politics, Profits and Propaganda Shaped World War II Movies by Clayton R. Koppes and Gregory D. Black (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990) p. 64.

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