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Elmer Davis
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thumb|Elmer Davis in 1943
Elmer Holmes Davis (January 13, 1890 - May 18, 1958) was a news reporter, author, the Director of the United States Office of War Information during World War II and a Peabody Award recipient.
Quotes
The easiest way to inject a propaganda idea into most people’s minds is to let it go through the medium of an entertainment picture when they do not realize that they are being propagandized.
As quoted in Hollywood Goes to War: How Politics, Profits and Propaganda Shaped World War II Movies by Clayton R. Koppes and Gregory D. Black (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990) p. 64.
External links
Category:Journalists from Indiana
Category:1890 births
Category:1958 deaths
Category:United States federal government officials