PLEASE don't tell me you dug that out of your memory, Brad. It would be too depressing <smile>
Lawry -----Original Message----- From: Brad McCormick, Ed.D. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2006 3:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Futurework] Advertising and more Lawrence de Bivort wrote: > Thanks, Chris. > > Brad, is this what you were thinking of? > I think what I am thinking of is: Cohen, E. (1981). The Propaganda of Saints in the Middle Ages. _ Journal of Communication, 31_, 16-26. But due to misfortunate circumstances beyond my control I am unable to access the copies I made and filed away of it back then. I hope to recover my archives in a few months, but I have never had the luxury in life of having a safe place to keep things -- e.g. a permanent parental home. \brad mccormick > Cheers, > Lawry > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christoph Reuss > Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2006 12:55 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [Futurework] Advertising and more > > Lawry de Bivort wrote: > >> Brad, can you tie the linguistic origins of 'propaganda' more closely to >> the Catholic church? >> > > Quoting from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda : > > <<In late Latin, propaganda meant "things to be propagated". In 1622, > shortly after the start of the Thirty Years' War, Pope Gregory XV founded > the Congregatio de Propaganda Fide ("Congregation for Propagating the > Faith"), a committee of Cardinals with the duty of overseeing the > propagation of Christianity by missionaries sent to non-Catholic countries. > Therefore, the term itself originates with this Roman Catholic Sacred > Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith (sacra congregatio christiano > nomini propagando or, briefly, propaganda fide), the department of the > pontifical administration charged with the spread of Catholicism and with > the regulation of ecclesiastical affairs in non-Catholic countries (mission > territory). > > The actual Latin stem propagand- conveys a sense of "that which ought to be > spread". Originally the term was not intended to refer to misleading > information. The modern political sense dates from World War I, and was not > originally pejorative.>> > > > > >> Re.: McDonalds: don't worry about the health aspects of McDonalds. Harry >> > has > >> assured us that after one of their customers has developed cancer or >> diabetes or whatever, he will simply not go back and McDs will go out of >> business. See, the free market DOES work. >> > > Even the McD CEO died of colorectal cancer, just 2 weeks after > he replaced his predecessor who had died of a sudden heart attack. > Well, at least McD CEOs walk their talk and actually eat at McD. > And generations of the "Marlboro man" died of lung/throat cancer. > Sort of "truth in advertising", at least IRL. > > Chris > > > > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [email protected] > http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework > > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [email protected] > http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework > > -- Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16) Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21) <![%THINK;[SGML+APL]]> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------------------- Visit my website ==> http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/ _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
