søndag den 25. marts 2012

And the Edward Bernays Award for Best Propaganda Effort Goes To...



The Edward Bernays Award is named after the "father of modern propaganda", Edward Louis Bernays. A nephew of Freud, he invented the use of doctors to promote bacon for breakfast (creating the modern American cooked breakfast), promoting smoking amongst women and many other "valuable" contributions to society and progress.
[DISCLAIMER! NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH THE ACTUAL "Edward L. Bernays Award" AWARDED BY THE "MAINE PUBLIC RELATIONS COUNCIL"]


THE ALLIANCE OF EUROPEAN NATIONALIST MOVEMENTS

They were everywhere, anytime. Even in the bathroom you couldn't escape these guys' efforts to promote their unsavoury cause. But credit where credit's due, "G&G" were omnipresent and even landed a meeting with Merkozy

The nationalist's "Dynamic Duo", Gollnish & Griffin, mounted by far the most vigorous, creative and wide-ranging press campaign. They started Twitter wars, sneaked into common NGO meetings without official invitation, tried sexual harassment, and took to if not the streets, then the toilets. The "Terror Twins" placed flyers with outrageously overblown horror stories in the summit bathrooms, thus making sure that the leaflets were at least seen. It is unknown whether someone may simply have wiped their ass with the offending flyers, or if they found them too disgusting even for that.
One of the AENM's flyers, playing to the viewer's primal fear of violence
Another example of AENM "toilet propaganda"

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