claim: Joseph Goebbels' Propaganda Ministry controlled the news media, arts, and information in Russi.
evidence: Percy Brand Blanshard -LRB- August 27 , 1892 -- November 19 , 1987 -RRB- was an American philosopher known primarily for his defense of reason .. American philosopher. American philosophy. reason. reason. A powerful polemicist , by all accounts he comported himself with courtesy and grace in philosophical controversies and exemplified the `` rational temper '' he advocated .. polemicist. polemicist