Building Better Propaganda

In an electrifying appearance at the Independent Review, Reason associate editor Jesse Walker reviews Gerd Horten's Radio Goes to War, and shows how the federal government took charge of the airwaves during World War II to make sure the wartime message not only got out there, but sounded as slick and organized as possible. When you compare this with the feds' latter-day snafu in bribing TV networks to produce drug war why-we-fight scripts, it's clear the Greatest Generation still has a thing or two to teach these young punks.