“This is an age of mass production. In the mass production of materials a broad technique has been developed and applied to their distribution. In this age, too, there must be a technique for the mass distribution of ideas.”

"Manipulating Public Opinion", American Journal of Sociology 33 (May, 1928), p. 958–971

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