Nancy Snow

Nancy Snow's Huffington Post Blog

  • Pentagon, Inc.: How to Sell an Unpopular War
    Call this episode "The Men Who Stare at Senators." We've been down this road before, that is, the U.S. military...
  • Remembering Rosa Parks
    Many will celebrate the memory of Rosa Parks today. The Civil Rights Movement continues to remind us of what one individual can do to create change.
  • Truth and Propaganda
    Fifty years ago on that Friday, November 25, 1960, the best-fed people in the world were still recovering from Thanksgiving....

Epitaph for a Journalist and Journalism

Today I was transcribing the memory of another American journalist, Edward R. Murrow, when I briefly visited my Twitter page and saw that @DanielSchorr was trending.  That could only mean one thing.  The nonagenarian voice of NPR, one of "Murrow's Boys" at CBS, Daniel Schorr, has died at 93.  I was just days away from placing a call to Schorr to share memories of working with Ed Murrow for my book, Truth is the Best Propaganda: Murrow in Washington.  

Read my entire article at the Huffington Post

 

Snowisms: Quips and Quotes

" Propaganda as a mere tool is no more moral or immoral than a pump handle....the only effective weapon against propaganda on behalf of one policy seems to be propaganda on behalf of an alternative. "
Harold Lasswell

Dr. Snow's Twitter Updates

drpersuasion: "Well now I've seen it." Reminds me of the old NYer cartoon of Grand Canyon mountains spelling out "Everything."
drpersuasion: World Peace, gotta get that in.
drpersuasion: Thanks for some Old School #madonna, esp. the marching band. Your old songs are definitely the best, much better than 2011
drpersuasion: Blast kills spouse, kids of missing Utah woman http://t.co/GRpR9S7J #noaccident