Abstract

This article intends to reflect on the possibility that there is a common foundation between the “traditional” media and the new mass media, and for this approaches the thought of the public relations expert Edward L. Bernays, especially as it’s developed in his illustrious study on Propaganda. In this treatise, the emphasis placed on the concept of “mass” is specially interesting, insofar it reveals a conception of the subjectivity of groups strongly influenced by the analyzes that his uncle Sigmund Freud had advanced in his Psychology of the masses and analysis of the ego. Finally, it will be concluded that the relationship between propaganda and information is not contingent but constitutive; entering this thesis into communion with an openly pan-propagandistic conception.