Nancy Snow

Nancy Snow's Huffington Post Blog

  • Pentagon, Inc.: How to Sell an Unpopular War
    Call this episode "The Men Who Stare at Senators." We've been down this road before, that is, the U.S. military...
  • Remembering Rosa Parks
    Many will celebrate the memory of Rosa Parks today. The Civil Rights Movement continues to remind us of what one individual can do to create change.
  • Truth and Propaganda
    Fifty years ago on that Friday, November 25, 1960, the best-fed people in the world were still recovering from Thanksgiving....

Epitaph for a Journalist and Journalism

Today I was transcribing the memory of another American journalist, Edward R. Murrow, when I briefly visited my Twitter page and saw that @DanielSchorr was trending.  That could only mean one thing.  The nonagenarian voice of NPR, one of "Murrow's Boys" at CBS, Daniel Schorr, has died at 93.  I was just days away from placing a call to Schorr to share memories of working with Ed Murrow for my book, Truth is the Best Propaganda: Murrow in Washington.  

Read my entire article at the Huffington Post

 

Snowisms: Quips and Quotes

" There can be no propaganda without a personality, a political chief. Clemenceau, Daladier, De Gaulle, Churchill, Roosevelt, MacArthur are obvious examples. And even more, Khrushchev, who, after having denounced the cult of personality, slipped into the same role, differently, but with the same ease and obeying the same necessity. The nation's unanimity is necessary. This unanimity is embodied in one personality, in whom everyone finds himself, in whom everyone hopes and projects himself, and for whom everything is possible and permissible. "
Jacques Ellul

Dr. Snow's Twitter Updates

drpersuasion: Romney latest pol to join wait-let-me-explain club http://t.co/wimO08Ix #oops
drpersuasion: Green tea drinkers show less disability with age http://t.co/2FI3KMjX #important
drpersuasion: How pop music and TV ads became inseparable. | http://t.co/XqSoAmge #sad
drpersuasion: "Well now I've seen it." Reminds me of the old NYer cartoon of Grand Canyon mountains spelling out "Everything."