Cult of personality Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==Role of mass media== The twentieth century brought technological advancements that made it possible for regimes to package propaganda in the form of [[Radio broadcasting|radio broadcasts]], [[film]]s, and later content on the internet. Writing in 2013, Thomas A. Wright observed that "[i]t is becoming evident that the [[charisma]]tic leader, especially in politics, has increasingly become the product of media and self-exposure."<ref name="autogenerated29" /> Focusing on the media in the United States, [[Robert N. Bellah]] added, "It is hard to determine the extent to which the media reflect the cult of personality in American politics and to what extent they have created it. Surely they did not create it all alone, but just as surely they have contributed to it. In any case, American politics is dominated by the personalities of political leaders to an extent rare in the modern world ... in the personalized politics of recent years the 'charisma' of the leader may be almost entirely a product of media exposure."<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Bellah |first=Robert N. |date=1986 |title=The Meaning of Reputation in American Society |url=https://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2003&context=californialawreview |url-status=dead |journal=[[California Law Review]] |volume=74 |issue=3 |page=747 |doi=10.15779/Z386730 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190426192935/https://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2003&context=californialawreview |archive-date=April 26, 2019 |access-date=June 13, 2019}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page