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Live in Chicago: How Public Relations Works

Stuff You Should Know

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Are You Going to Tour to Going and Having Fun?

In Bernays day, the reason they had ads like that is because you literally used something until it was done back then. There was no such thing as buying the new version of the thing you already have. So basically all of the weird quiet maltreatment that every living person in the Western world undergoes on a daily basis can almost without hyperbole be laid at the feet of Edward Bernays.

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