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Thirteen Forum: Propaganda Then and Now
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About This Episode
An international panel convenes to discuss the history of propaganda. The panelists are Orville Schell, Jack Miles, Masha Gessen and George Soros. This event was the first panel in a three-part conference entitled "There You Go Again: Orwell Comes to America," presented by the New York Public Library (www.nypl.org/), with the Open Society Institute (http://www.soros.org/).
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