Committee on Public Information

(noun)

The Committee on Public Information, also known as the CPI or the Creel Committee, was an independent agency of the U.S. government created to influence public opinion regarding participation in World War I. Over just 28 months, from April 13, 1917, to August 21, 1919, the CPI used every medium available to create enthusiasm for the war effort and enlist public support against foreign attempts to undercut America's war aims.

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Examples of Committee on Public Information in the following topics:

  • War Propaganda

    • War propaganda campaigns by the Creel Committee and Hollywood influenced American views on World War I.
    • Hoping to influence public opinion favorably toward American participation in World War I, President Woodrow Wilson established the Committee on Public Information (CPI) through Executive Order 2594 on April 13, 1917.
    • The committee also used direct human media in the form of about 75,000 "Four Minute Men," volunteers who delivered positive public messages about the war.
    • In one example, Irish-American tenor John McCormack sang at Mount Vernon before an audience representing Irish-American organizations.
    • Describe how the Committee on Public Information used propaganda to influence American public opinion toward supporting U.S. participation in the war

  • The Committee System

    • Almost all standing committee meetings for transacting business must be open to the public unless the committee votes, publicly, to close the meeting.
    • A committee might call for public hearings on important bills.
    • The Committee on Ways and Means followed on July 24, 1789 during a debate on the creation of the Treasury Department over concerns of giving the new department too much authority over revenue proposals.
    • This first Committee on Ways and Means had 11 members and existed for just two months.
    • Describe the committee system, its growth, and that growth's effect on Congress's power

  • The Staff System

    • Representatives had a limit of 18 full-time and four part-time staffers, while Senators had no limit on staff.
    • Majority and minority members hire their own staff, with the exception of two committees in each house: the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence in the House, and the Select Committee on Ethics and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in the Senate.
    • These committees have a single staff.
    • In 2000, House committees had an average of 68 staff, and Senate committees an average of 46.
    • The Russell Senate Office Building houses several Congressional staff members, including those on the United States Senate Committees on Armed Services, Rules and Administration, Veterans' Affairs, and others.

  • Robespierre and the Committee on Pubic Safety

  • Committees

    • Research and recommendations: committees are often formed to do research and make recommendations on a potential or planned project or change.
    • Tabling: as a means of public relations by sending sensitive, inconvenient, or irrelevant matters to committees, organizations may bypass, stall, or disacknowledge matters without declaring a formal policy of inaction or indifference.
    • A committee (or "commission") is a type of small deliberative assembly that is usually intended to remain subordinate to another, larger deliberative assembly—which, when organized so that action on committee requires a vote by all its entitled members, is called the "Committee of the Whole".
    • Research and Recommendations: Committees are often formed to do research and make recommendations on a potential or planned project or change.
    • Tabling: As a means of public relations by sending sensitive, inconvenient, or irrelevant matters to committees, organizations may bypass, stall, or refuse to acknowledge matters without declaring a formal policy of inaction or indifference.

  • Conference Committee

    • A conference committee is a committee of Congress appointed by the House and Senate to resolve disagreements on a particular bill.
    • A conference committee is a committee of Congress appointed by the House of Representatives and Senate to resolve disagreements on a particular bill.
    • House rules require that one conference meeting be open to the public, unless the house, in open session, votes that a meeting will be closed to the public.
    • But apart from this one open meeting, conference committees usually meet in private and are dominated by the Chairs of the House and Senate Committees.
    • This explanatory statement provides one of the best sources of legislative history on the bill.

  • Do What to Make Friends?

    • The goals and objectives of most committees I've served on have been either murky or ignoble.
    • Now let me brighten the scene a bit with a few snippets from a 1986 article by Patrick Doreian in one of my favorite publications, the Journal of Irreproducible Results.
    • In addition to coffee, 21st-century bottled water and athletic performance beverages might now also qualify as drags on committee productivity).
    • Some committees have to exist, however, and sometimes you have to join one of them.
    • In the next section I'll share some specific advice on how to make committees and their meetings proceed as smoothly as possible.

  • Information and Knowledge

    • Information seeking is the process or activity of attempting to obtain information in both human and technological contexts.
    • Information seeking is related to, but different from, information retrieval.
    • Information management (IM) is the collection and management of information from one or more sources and the distribution of that information to one or more audiences.
    • Information architecture (IA) is the art and science of organizing and labeling websites, intranets, online communities and software to support information use.
    • It is an emerging discipline and community of practice focused on bringing together principles of design and architecture to the digital landscape.

  • The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses

    • The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) establishes guidelines to maintain viral family uniformity.
    • The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) is a committee which authorizes and organizes the taxonomic classification of viruses.
    • Members of the committee are considered to be world experts on viruses.
    • It is open to the public and is searchable by several different means.
    • Describe the purpose and objectives of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses

  • Congressional Campaign Committees

    • The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is the Democratic Hill committee for the United States House of Representatives, working to elect Democrats to that body.
    • The structure of the committee consists, essentially, of the Chairperson, their staff, and other Democratic members of Congress that serve in roles supporting the functions of the committee.
    • In a February 2012 profile of the department, Roll Call wrote that "The DCCC's team of mostly 20-somethings researches opposition targets for eight weeks at a time, scouring news clips and YouTube videos and traveling across the country to comb through public records, all in hopes of finding a good hit.
    • Discoveries go into hundred-page research books on their targets that are used as bait to recruit candidates, leaked to reporters or cited in campaign advertisements and mail pieces."
    • The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) is the Republican Hill committee which works to elect Republicans to the United States House of Representatives.