Wartime propaganda’s end left a vacuum that postwar advertising filled

Evidence

But if official propaganda fell into ignominy, there was no such effect on its commercial cousin, advertising. Indeed government’s discontinuation of wartime media messaging, in a sense, left the field more open for business interests, who, just as they had immediately following the previous world war, filled the vacuum. After the war, commercial broadcasters would enjoy both the powers of centralized control and the perennial lure of advertising revenues. — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 430

Categorization

• XREF: Directly continues the reader’s core thread on attention industries: government delegitimized propaganda while the same techniques migrated into commercial advertising. — connects to: Wartime government advertising legitimized commercial advertising as respectable — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 172; Postwar American consumption was politically constructed — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1721; Postwar German elections were degraded into mere customer-touting — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2339 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Wartime government advertising legitimized commercial advertising as respectable #corroborates (0.82) — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 172
• Postwar American consumption was politically constructed #expands (0.80) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1721
• Postwar German elections were degraded into mere customer-touting #exemplifies (0.72) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2339