Propaganda, Inc. Quotes

“Current public diplomacy and foreign policy making reduces the role of American citizens to mere spectators. The USIA's model of democracy and the free market is promoted as the superpower version of economic globalization, packaged and ready for shipping to clients throughout the world. In this version, foreign capital flows freely while the movement of people, particularly the world's poor, is strictly controlled. Such a commercial package speaks first and foremost for government 'partners,' the Fortune 500 corporations, which are the primary beneficiaries as well as the bankrollers of the American political process. This is a packaged story of America that is incomplete and undemocratic. Where do workers and communities fit into the story? How do private citizens play a part in building dialogue across cultures?”
― Nancy Snow, Propaganda, Inc.: Selling America's Culture to the World

“Democracy cannot function or survive without a sufficient medium by which citizens remain informed and engaged in public policy debates.”
― Nancy Snow, Propaganda, Inc.: Selling America's Culture to the World

“A civilian-based diplomacy supports noncommercial, nonprofit, and publicly-subsidized media to counteract the corporate-controlled, for-profit, private media that dominate political discourse; and works to place media control, ownership, and lobbying at the center of public policy debate.”
― Nancy Snow, Propaganda, Inc.: Selling America's Culture to the World

“The pursuit of truth, as a form of political action, is inherently disruptive, anti-authoritarian, and dangerous to those content with the way things are.”
― Nancy Snow, Propaganda, Inc.: Selling America's Culture to the World