Propaganda: Media in War Politics

Propaganda played an important part in the politics of the war, but was only successful as part of wider political and military strategies. For each belligerent, the most effective and important forms of propaganda were aimed at its own domestic population and based on consensus. As part of this, the Allies largely managed relations with their own newspapers and other media by negotiated agreement, backed by coercive powers that were seldom used. Germany had a more coercive and directive approach to propaganda and the media, eventually dominated by its military. Post-war views of wartime propaganda misunderstood the reasons for Allied propaganda success.

Citation

Badsey, S. (2014) Media in War Politics , in Daniel, U., Gatrell, P., Janz, O., Jones, H., Keene, J., Kramer, A. and Nasson, B. (eds.) 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War. Berlin: Freie Universität Berlin., DOI: 10.15463/ie1418.10046.

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Journal article

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en

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Faculty of Social Sciences