Noam Chomsky’s backpocket basic on wartime propaganda and opinion control begins by asserting two models of democracy—one where the open public actively participates, and 1 where the general public is manipulated and controlled. Relating to Chomsky, ‘propaganda is normally to democracy as the bludgeon is certainly to a totalitarian state,’ and the mass media may be the main vehicle for providing propaganda in the United States. From an study of how Woodrow Wilson’s Creel Commission ‘succeeded, within six about Press Control: The Spectacular Accomplishments of Propaganda months, in turning a pacifist inhabitants right into a hysterical, war-mongering population,’ to Bush Sr.’s war on Iraq, Chomsky examines the way the media and public relations industries have been used as propaganda to create public support for going to battle. Chomsky further touches on how the modern public relations industry has been affected by Walter Lippmann’s theory of ‘spectator democracy,’ in which the public sometimes appears being a ‘bewildered herd’ that should be directed, not really empowered; and the way the public relations sector in the United States focuses on ‘controlling the general public brain,’ and not on informing it. Mass media Control is an very helpful primer on the secret workings of disinformation in democratic societies.