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Originally Posted by tturedraider
Please explain how you think from 1900-ish - 1940-ish the media drove the public’s embrace of motorized transportation with the internal combustion engine and how the public would have reacted to this new method of transportation in the absence of the media influencing them. I’m very interested to hear your thoughts on that.
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Newspapers and radio spread information. The public took notice, and their opinions and reactions were shaped by the way the content was presented.
In the absence of such means of mass communication, the public would have had a much slower uptake rate, but it is difficult to say more, since this did not happen.
These days things are far more advanced, since both advertising and propaganda were mastered by Edward Bernays, who drove the new media model. That said, the means by which the public are influenced to act are not so different; the major difference today is that the psychological aspects of creating and maintaining consent have been nearly perfected.