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-----Original Message----- From: Brad McCormick, Ed.D. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2006 9:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Futurework] Advertising and more Lawrence de Bivort wrote: > I've got a few boxes like that, too. I am slowly coming to the notion that > no one is ever going to look at them, and that it is time to start > jettisoning them. Hmmmmm... one box a week -- several years to go. > > Climb Mount Fuji > O snail, > But slowly, slowly. > Doesn't a snail leave a trail of slime behind it (an audit trail?)? "Cheers!" \brad mccormick > Cheers, > Lawry > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brad McCormick, > Ed.D. > Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2006 6:41 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Futurework] Advertising and more > > Lawrence de Bivort wrote: > >> PLEASE don't tell me you dug that out of your memory, Brad. It would be >> > too > >> depressing <smile> >> >> > No, I found it as an ERIC citation in a Google search for: "The > propaganda of saints in the middle ages" (I remembered the > title...) -- damn ERIC! which, fortunately, > I never had to deal with at Teachers College -- it ws just > something else to jerk students around > with instead of the relevant documents being offered > to the student without the latter having to "work for it" -- I > repeat my contention that I can understand poor and middling > persons putting up with what students are subjected to > because they have no choice, but > it's sick when rich people let their children undergo such indignities. > > But I do have the photocopies of this article > in their own manila folder in a box of similar files from the early > 1980s -- it's just "in storage", so I can't enjoy reading the text. But > the citation sounds right. And perhaps it was a pro-Church article > as Chris writes, but, if it was, I found it meaningful nonetheless, > clearly, meaningful enough to make several copies of it and put them > in my pre-computer era files. > > I probably read the article in the IBM Watson Research Center library -- > they > used to get lots of "good" non-IBM business related journals. > > Don't follow the leader: follow the audit trail! > > \brad mccormick > > >> 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. 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