#Big_Food uses mommy bloggers to shape public opinion
▻http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/8/food-agriculturemonsantogmoadvertising.html
The father of public relations, #Edward_Bernays, might never have dreamed up the age of #Twitter and #Facebook, but he likely wouldn’t be surprised to see food-industry tweets and Facebook ads dressed up as news. Bernays knew the importance of constant #PR innovation. If the public “becomes weary of the old methods used to persuade it,” he wrote in his 1928 book “Propaganda,” then we must simply present our “appeals more intelligently.” Or, as we’re seeing with Monsanto and its food industry counterparts, if not exactly intelligently, then at least more surreptitiously: on the podium, the Twitter feeds and the mommy blogs.