“For purposes of this discussion, propaganda is defined as the manipulation of the public to the end of securing some specific action.”

—  Everett Dean Martin

Source: Are We Victims of Propaganda, Our Invisible Masters: A Debate with Edward Bernays (1929), p. 142

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