Radio Active Magazine

John Maxwell Hamilton discusses propaganda with Radio Active Magazine regular Spencer Graves. Hamilton is a long-time journalist, author, educator, and public servant. He is the Hopkins P. Breazeale Professor and founding dean of the Manship School of Mass Communication at Louisiana State University, where he has also served as Provost. He has appointments as a global fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center and as a senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, both in Washington, DC. His journalistic work has been carried by many major outlets including ABC radio, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and many others. He was a long time commentator for Public Radio International. He has had assignments in over 50 countries. As an educator, Hamilton has written extensively on foreign news gathering and has worked to improve it. In the 1980s he created and directed projects for local reporting of foreign news, especially on developing countries, for the Society of Prof