Edward L. Bernays Quotes
Image has become everything.
Edward L. Bernays, 1891-1995, Publicist & Advertising Executive, Quoted in Life, Fall 1990
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See Richard Joseph Daley and Don Hewitt.
Referring to the JFK-Nixon debate where the TV camera showed Nixon sweating: See Don Hewitt {603411} and Richard Joseph Daley {599089}
The Supreme Court was hearing a redistricting case. The Georgia legislature and voted to approve a map showing the new districts. Some of the districts were so torturously drawn, that two non-contiguous areas were put in the same district and connected by an area in between that was so thin, it only included a state highway and its right of way where there were of course no voters. Justice O’Conner and other justices thought the map itself was sufficient grounds to reject the redistricting plan, though there was much other evidence as well.
Edward Louis Bernays was an Austrian-American pioneer in the field of public relations and propaganda, referred to in his obituary as "the father of public relations". Bernays was named one of the 100 most influential Americans of the 20th century by Life. He was the subject of a full-length biography by Larry Tye called The Father of Spin (1999) and later an award-winning 2002 documentary for the BBC by Adam Curtis called The Century of the Self.
