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“Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter may endanger the morals of individuals the latter invariably endangers the morals of an entire country,” Kraus said in Morality and Criminal Justice, an essay written in 1908. Edward Timms and Fred Bridgham, translators who produced the first complete edition of Kraus’s masterpiece in English , remark, “Almost alone in the period before the first world war, Kraus saw the press as an apocalyptic threat.” Russell concurs, “Kraus’s particular preoccupation, throughout his life, was the media, then primarily the press and advertising.”
FUSCHL: Hang on. I wrote an intro back in the office – wait a second – (writes) “Released from her sufferings in Russian captivity and having finally reached her destination after an onerous and tedious journey, the artiste wept tears of joy at the realization she was once more in her beloved city of Vienna.”
Elfriede Ritter: (waving a finger threateningly) My dear sir, that’s not what I said! On the contrary did I not say, I had nothing to complain of? Not a single thing.
Fuschl: Today, the artiste can look back today on her ordeal with a certain ironic detachment.
Elfriede Ritter: But Gentlemen what are you trying to do – I really can’t say
Halberstam: Go on. You’ve no idea of the things you can say. Here we have freedom of speech thank God, not like in Russia. Here, praise be, one can say whatever one wants about conditions in Russia.
Advertising is persuasion and its standards of truth are extremely flexible. Advertisers’ standards are gratefully adopted by the downstream dependent media, newspapers and periodicals in Kraus’s era. The media’s standards of objective truth be no better than the standards of the advertisers who pay them. When the selective enhancements and omissions of marketing advocacy become standards of objective truth, the result is a poisoned social reality and a distorted collective world view. As the editor and publisher of Vienne New Free Press, a frequent target of Kraus’s commentary, Moriz Benedikt, put it, “We’ve got to make the public hungry for war and the newspaper, the two things are inseparable.”