Federal Publicity

  • By:Bryant Putney
  • Content Type: Report
  • Publisher: CQ Press
    • Publication year: 1940
    • Online pub date:
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.4135/cqresrre1940031800

Archive Report

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Richard M. Boeckel, Editor

Recent Expansion of Publicity Activities

Since the World War, and particularly since 1933, the publicity activities of the government at Washington have been enormously expanded. Under the New Deal, administrative agencies have made greater efforts than under any previous administration to create public support for their acts and policies through the use of such instruments of explanation and persuasion as are available to them. Increasing use of publicity by federal agencies has engendered widespread hostility—both among those who fear that the publicity machinery recently created may ...

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