This little work contains the cream of the reports which during the last four years have been made in the journal of the American Medical Association by the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry of the Association. It should be in the hands of every one of our readers, for not only does it afford valuable information regarding the composition of many much vaunted proprietary medicines, thus supplem...

Sellers often make explicit or implicit product claims without providing evidence. Even when such “puffery” is pure cheap talk, we find it can be credible and help buyers make a better decision. Talking up one attribute of a product leads rational buyers to have a better impression of the product on that attribute, but also to have a worse impression of the product on other attributes. Such upd...

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The ‘propaganda model’ of news production in capitalist democracies elaborated by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky in 1988 was met with initial hostile criticism and then more or less complete neglect. In the last five years, there has been a renewal of interest, although opinion remains seriously divided. This article adopts a sympathetic stance towards the main ideas of the model, but sugges...

Der Terrorismus nutzt das Internet und insbesondere soziale Medien bereits seit einiger Zeit zur Rekrutierung neuer Mitglieder und zur Verbreitung ihrer Ideologie. Aber auch deren Gegner nutzen das Internet zur Terrorbekämpfung. Auch wenn es zum Einsatz sozialer Medien in Krisen bereits zahlreiche Veröffentlichungen gibt, wurde deren Einsatz im Terrorismus, einer besonderen Art der Krise, insbe...

Comparing US propaganda strategies after September 11 with those of the Gulf War and the Bosnia Conflict the paper argues that targeted propaganda measures were not needed in order to plant military logic in the public mind. All that was needed was a lack of understanding of the terror attack and its pseudoexplanation in terms of groundless hate. It was this mind-set, which rejected any analysi...

This paper analyzes propaganda leaflets in different wars. The importance of and its use creation wars indicates significance terms success. Every war has used certain tactics strategies to win influence the people through their types leaflets. Following are discussed with powerful during war. For instance, Korean leaflets, German Franco-Prussian War 1870 Vietnam 1954-75 propaganda, World I Pro...