{"id":3270,"date":"2008-05-29T08:10:45","date_gmt":"2008-05-29T08:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3270"},"modified":"2008-05-29T08:10:45","modified_gmt":"2008-05-29T08:10:45","slug":"propaganda_is_n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3270","title":{"rendered":"Propaganda Is Now Officially Hip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dynamist.com\/weblog\/archives\/002791.html\">Virginia Postrel<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;An interesting Metafilter discussion on Obama campaign graphics.&#8221; (Via Design Observer.)<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll note, however, that propaganda has been hip for at least 40 years. All you have to do is check out a book like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FWar-Posters-Weapons-Mass-Communication%2Fdp%2F050025141X%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1211948289%26sr%3D8-1&#038;tag=dynamistcom&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\">War Posters: Weapons of Mass Communications<\/a> and you&#8217;ll fine that through WWII, most of the graphic propaganda is put out by governments and their supporters and is mostly patriotic and pro-military (whichever country or military that might be). <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dynamist.com\/weblog\/archives\/002791.html\">Virginia Postrel<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;An interesting Metafilter discussion on Obama campaign graphics.&#8221; (Via Design Observer.)<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll note, however, that propaganda has been hip for at least 40 years. All you have to do is check out a book like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FWar-Posters-Weapons-Mass-Communication%2Fdp%2F050025141X%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1211948289%26sr%3D8-1&#038;tag=dynamistcom&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\">War Posters: Weapons of Mass Communications<\/a> and you&#8217;ll fine that through WWII, most of the graphic propaganda is put out by governments and their supporters and is mostly patriotic and pro-military (whichever country or military that might be). <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,21,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3270"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}