- Randal Marlin
Randal Marlin is a
philosophy professor atCarleton University who specializes in the study ofpropaganda . He was educated atPrinceton University ,McGill University , theUniversity of Oxford , and theUniversity of Toronto . After receiving aDepartment of National Defense fellowship to study under propaganda scholarJacques Ellul atBordeaux in the early 1980s, he started a philosophy and mass communications class at Carleton called "Truth and Propaganda," which has run annually since then.The text for this class is his book, "Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion", which looks at definitional, historical, ethical, and jurisprudential issues relating to propaganda.
His studies and teaching in this field have led him to be nicknamed "
Ottawa 's Orwell". [cite news
title=Bio: Dr. Randal Marlin
last=Trew
first=Stuart
date=23 Mar 2006
publisher=Ottawa XPress
url=http://www.ottawaxpress.ca/news/news.aspx?iIDArticle=8724]Books
*"Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion", 2002
*"The David Levine Affair", 1998Notes
External links
* [http://http-server.carleton.ca/~rmarlin/ Truth & Propaganda course website]
* [http://www.broadviewpress.com/bvbooks.asp?BookID=265 Publisher's profile]
* [http://grubstreet.ca/articles/interviews/marlin2008.htm 2008 Interview with Dr. Marlin]
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