Bernays "Torches of Freedom" Campaign Uses Feminism to Sell Cigarettes
Edward Bernays orchestrates his most famous propaganda campaign, hiring a group of young women to march in New York’s Easter Parade while smoking cigarettes and announcing to press photographers that they are lighting “torches of freedom” in a strike against male domination. The …
Edward Bernays
American Tobacco Company
George Washington Hill
propaganda
media-manipulation
corporate-influence
public-relations
health
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