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Viewing Media COMMENTARIES 19 through 28 of 28
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Resort To Fear |
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on Saturday, July 23rd, 2005 @ 18:50:52 MST (2217 views) |
The resort to fear by systems of power to discipline the domestic population has left a long and terrible trail of bloodshed and suffering which we ignore at our peril. Recent history provides many shocking illustrations. |
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Propaganda |
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on Friday, July 15th, 2005 @ 00:28:39 MST (2728 views) |
The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. |
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The Doors Of Perception: Why Americans Will Believe Almost Anything |
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on Saturday, July 09th, 2005 @ 16:40:58 MST (3967 views) |
These early mass persuaders postured themselves as performing a moral service for humanity in general - democracy was too good for people; they needed to be told what to think. Stauber describes Bernays' rationale like this: "the scientific manipulation of public opinion was necessary to overcome chaos and conflict in a democratic society." |
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The new(s) face of Propaganda |
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on Sunday, June 26th, 2005 @ 22:37:04 MST (2772 views) |
Propaganda is essentially an organized process of persuasion and also it is a 'dirty trick utilized by 'hidden persuaders', 'mind manipulators' and 'brainwashers' – Orwellian 'Big Brothers' who somehow subliminally control our thoughts in order to control our behavior to serve their interest rather than our own. |
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Arrogant Nation |
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on Sunday, May 08th, 2005 @ 00:16:45 MST (2344 views) |
The arrogance of ignorance, a profoundly dangerous and ill-informed presumption that one’s own people are better (wiser, morally and spiritually ascendant, and more capable) than others, seems rather well entrenched within the American populace. It is such that seems to have created a social-political environment that continues to encourage the American effort to build a World Empire. |
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The Banality of Evil |
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on Tuesday, April 26th, 2005 @ 12:36:47 MST (2780 views) |
Top administrators in the machinery of death, may not be crazy fanatics at all, but rather ordinary individuals who simply accept the premises of their state and participate in any ongoing enterprise with the energy of good bureaucrats. |
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Methods of Media Manipulation |
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on Friday, February 04th, 2005 @ 00:42:36 MST (7605 views) |
Media bias does not occur in a random fashion. It moves in the same overall direction, favoring management over labor, corporations over corporate critics, affluent Whites over low-income minorities, officialdom over protesters, the two-party monopoly over leftist third parties, privatization and free market "reforms" over public-sector development, U.S. corporate dominance of the Third World over revolutionary social change.... |
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A Propaganda Model |
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on Wednesday, January 26th, 2005 @ 17:39:37 MST (7894 views) |
The mass media serve as a system of propaganda. A rather thorough analysis and explanation of how the US mass media functions as a system of propaganda. Explanations of how censorship works. |
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