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John Maxwell Hamilton on American propaganda
John Maxwell Hamilton discusses propaganda with Radio Active Magazine regular Spencer Graves.
Hamilton is a long-time journalist, author, educator, and public servant. He is the Hopkins P. Breazeale Professor and founding dean of the Manship School of Mass Communication at Louisiana State University, where he has also served as Provost. He has appointments as a global fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center and as a senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, both in Washington, DC.
His journalistic work has been carried by many major outlets including ABC radio, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and many others. He was a long time commentator for Public Radio International. He has had assignments in over 50 countries.
As an educator, Hamilton has written extensively on foreign news gathering and has worked to improve it. In the 1980s he created and directed projects for local reporting of foreign news, especially on developing countries, for the Society of Professional Journalists and the American Society of Newspaper Editors. The National Journal said Hamilton has shaped public opinion about the complexity of US - Third World relations “more than any other single journalist.”
In government, he oversaw nuclear non-proliferation issues for the House Foreign Affairs Committee, served in the State Department, and managed a World Bank program to educate Americans about economic development. He served in Vietnam as a Marine Corps platoon commander and in Okinawa as a company commander.
Hamilton is an author of 8 books and editor of many more. Two of his more recent books are
Each of them won multiple awards.[10]
Hamilton noted:
A law of propaganda is that no one ever does propaganda. Only the enemy does propaganda.
More details and a moderated discussion of issues raised in this interview are supported in the Wikiversity article on “John Maxwell Hamilton on American propaganda" with a video.
Copyright 2025 John Maxwell Hamilton and Spencer Graves, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 international license.
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By KKFI 90.1 FM Kansas City Community RadioJohn Maxwell Hamilton discusses propaganda with Radio Active Magazine regular Spencer Graves.
Hamilton is a long-time journalist, author, educator, and public servant. He is the Hopkins P. Breazeale Professor and founding dean of the Manship School of Mass Communication at Louisiana State University, where he has also served as Provost. He has appointments as a global fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center and as a senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, both in Washington, DC.
His journalistic work has been carried by many major outlets including ABC radio, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and many others. He was a long time commentator for Public Radio International. He has had assignments in over 50 countries.
As an educator, Hamilton has written extensively on foreign news gathering and has worked to improve it. In the 1980s he created and directed projects for local reporting of foreign news, especially on developing countries, for the Society of Professional Journalists and the American Society of Newspaper Editors. The National Journal said Hamilton has shaped public opinion about the complexity of US - Third World relations “more than any other single journalist.”
In government, he oversaw nuclear non-proliferation issues for the House Foreign Affairs Committee, served in the State Department, and managed a World Bank program to educate Americans about economic development. He served in Vietnam as a Marine Corps platoon commander and in Okinawa as a company commander.
Hamilton is an author of 8 books and editor of many more. Two of his more recent books are
Each of them won multiple awards.[10]
Hamilton noted:
A law of propaganda is that no one ever does propaganda. Only the enemy does propaganda.
More details and a moderated discussion of issues raised in this interview are supported in the Wikiversity article on “John Maxwell Hamilton on American propaganda" with a video.
Copyright 2025 John Maxwell Hamilton and Spencer Graves, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 international license.