George Creel oversaw the worldwide operations of the Committee on Public Information, an unprecedented censorship and propaganda agency established by Wilson in 1917 and staffed by more than 150,000 ex-journalists, press agents, Hollywood filmmakers, stump speakers, and politicos. “Partisan as a campaign button,” his rules for the press—backed by criminal sanctions—helped vilify the anti-Wilson suffrage protesters who were illegally imprisoned and brutally mistreated.
Source photograph: E.N. Jackson, U.S. War Department (U.S. Army War College, Historical Section, World War I Branch), National Archives.
Date: 1919
George Creel oversaw the worldwide operations of the Committee on Public Information, an unprecedented censorship and propaganda agency established by Wilson in 1917 and staffed by more than 150,000 ex-journalists, press agents, Hollywood filmmakers, stump speakers, and politicos. “Partisan as a campaign button,” his rules for the press—backed by criminal sanctions—helped vilify the anti-Wilson suffrage protesters who were illegally imprisoned and brutally mistreated.
Source photograph: E.N. Jackson, U.S. War Department (U.S. Army War College, Historical Section, World War I Branch), National Archives.
Date: 1919