A Quote By Joseph Goebbels:

[Jon8503]

"The Fuhrer praises the superiority of our system when compared with liberal ones. We educate our people according to a common world-view. With the aid of films, radio and the press, which the Fuhrer sees as the most important tools of popular leadership. The state must never let them out of her hands. The Fuhrer also has a good word for the way our journalists have behaved. The Propaganda Companies have made an essential contribution to this." ~ Joseph Goebbels / diary entry / June 20, 1941 / The Goebbels Diaries; 1939-1941

[Jon8503]

1. Guess he felt the media was important in achieving his goals - N/T.

[hippiechick]

2. Whoa

:scared: "We educate our people according to a common world-view."

[KlatooBNikto]

3. Coercion works best when it is voluntary.

[H2O Man]

5. Exactly.

When I was in 10th grade, a progressive teacher introduced me to the book "Summerhill." It has an introduction by Erich Fromm that opened my eyes. Fromm details exactly what you summed up in one sentence. It seems that coercion works best when people believe it is voluntary.

[jimshoes]

4. Change a few names

and a few dates and voila! 2005! (Does bushco have a secret time machine?)

[KnaveRupe]

6. Goebbels....

...now THERE'S a feller who really knew how to "catapult the propagagnda"!

Fuhrer-in' is hard work.

[oblivious]

7. Nuremberg:Propagandists are as culpable as military and political leaders.

US prosecuted Nazi propagandists as war criminals
The Nuremberg tribunal and the role of the media

In the American media there is barely a trace of serious analysis concerning the political and social realities of the Middle East. It long ago abandoned any sense of responsibility for educating and informing the public or carrying out the critical democratic function traditionally assigned to the “Fourth Estate,” i.e., serving as a watchdog and check on government abuses and falsifications. Instead it slavishly carries out the function assigned it by the ruling elite: to confuse, terrorize and intimidate the American public, rendering it less able to resist the reactionary program of the right-wing clique in Washington.

...in their arguments US prosecutors set forth a democratic legal principle derived from the international experience of a half-century of carnage: that planning and launching an aggressive war constituted a criminal act and that those who helped prepare such a war through their propaganda efforts were as culpable as those who drew up the battle plans or manufactured the munitions.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/apr2003/nure-a16.shtml