Disinformation in Mass Media

The founding in 1777 of the Journal de Paris, France?s first daily and distinctly commercial paper, represents an early use of disinformation as a tool for political gain, profit, and societal division.

The founding in 1777 of the Journal de Paris, Frances first daily and distinctly commercial paper, represents an early use of disinformation as a tool for political gain, profit, and societal division. To attract a large readership and bar competition for C.W. Glucks works at the Paris Opéra, it launched a prolonged campaign of anonymous lies, mockery, and defamation against two prominent members of the Académie Française who wished the Opéra to be open to all deserving composers but lacked a comparable daily forum with which to defend themselves. In this unique episode, music served as a smokescreen for nefarious activity. No musical knowledge is necessary to follow this purely political drama.

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