This Is Propaganda Podcast: Fine-Tuning Our Bulls**T Detectors

Propaganda is a word used with monotonous regularity during the Cold War era. In the 50s, 60s, and 70s, it was the Communist Soviet Union that was the wellspring of almost all propaganda. When propaganda was successful, we called those victims “brainwashed.”

While the word propaganda has fallen from favor, current society has crafted new descriptive terms for it. Spin, marketing, influencer, brand awareness, personal branding, deepfakes, and even misinformation have replaced the P word.

In this new Webby Award-winning narrative podcast by Brink Media, This Is Propaganda, co-hosts Josh & Malcolm from BRINK media group challenge the marketing profession’s delusions about the origins, techniques, and cultural impact of the propaganda all around us and how it continues to profoundly shape our culture today.
The first season investigates how propaganda became the foundation of all consumer marketing, its omnipresence and evolution across generations of media, and the consequences we face today.

What’s the show about? It details, describes, and autopsies the numerous methods used by governments, businesses, and powerful groups to influence how we think and behave.

For example, in the first episode the co-hosts discuss Edward Bernays, the…