they didn't want' (1991, p. 10). He was talking about the kind of propaganda employed by Woodrow Wilson, President of the U.S. Wilson set up the Creel Commission in 1916, a propaganda commission made up of 'intellectual men'. Wilson's administration was in need of such a commission to gain the publics backing for getting involved in the war in Europe – something the American people had little interest in. This goal was achieved through '...terrifying them and eliciting jingoistic fanaticism' by publishing information such as '...a good deal of fabrication of atrocities by the Huns...' (1991, p. 7-8).
             The thinking behind this type of propaganda also comes from Lippmann, who famously described the majority of the public as '"the bewildered herd"', who's function it is to '"spectate"' whilst the 'specialised class', the select men in power, take control (1991, p. 12). Lippmann goes on to say that the herd is able to participate in decisions at times, via elections, thus ensuring a democracy rather than a totalitarian state, but that the herd continues to need 'taming', which is done through the '...new revolution in the art of democracy: the manufacture of consent', one route of which is the media (1991, p. 13-14).
             A contemporary example of this kind of propaganda, delivered from those in power and eliciting consent from a public either uninterested or anti war, is that which took place during The Gulf War. According to Philo and Mclaughlin, the media, government and the military convinced the British public that they wanted to go to war with a country, and, more specifically, a man (Saddam Hussein) that they knew little if anything about, let alone wanted to war with. All the British newspapers called for the destruction of Hussein, justifying this by likening him to Hitler, thus scare mongering. What...