Berneys and Lippman

Well, I must say that I agree that these articles are easier to read than Rampage.
While reading Bernays' article, I found that he was fairly easy and simple to read. As with rhetoric, my views and thoughts of propaganda were much more narrow that how he explained it. Becuase this was written a while ago, the intro. mentions that there was not a "negative connotation" with the word such as there is today. I like how he explains his views on why it is necessary to use propaganda to influence public opinion, and why it does not always have to be thought of as a "bad" thing that the government uses to "brainwash" our young, exploring college minds!! I think the number of examples he uses, although outdated, are appropriate choices to back up what he is saying, and I like the style he uses when writing. This article really impressed me with its simple definitions and easy to relate to examples.
Lippmann seems to be pretty harsh on the American public in the beginning of his article. However, this has always been an issue in America-the number of people who show up to vote. In the past years that msot of us have been able to vote, there seems to have been a tremendous amount of effort on someone's part to encourage our age group to go out and vote. I think this is just something that goes in cycles throughout history. However, further into the article he seems to be a little kinder to the American citizen andacknowledge that often it is hard to see the effect of one person voting or not voting. I very much agree with him. In the every day government issues, we really do not have all that much control of a government that supposed to be for the people and by the people. I did not like this article as much as Bernays' but I did like the style in which it was written. It was a pretty easy read and an issue that is valid to us personally.