Media is all propaganda

[Edward777]

information, ​ideas, ​opinions, or ​images, often only giving one ​part of an ​argument, that are ​broadcast, ​published, or in some other way ​spread with the ​intention of ​influencing people's ​opinions:

Cambridge Dictionary --- definition of "propaganda."


Discussion: All art is propaganda...all media is propaganda. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XF3K7u-5XQE

One of the biggest obstacles to getting people to consider the message of people like Rand Paul is the media. The corporate media creates "reality" and since the average person in the USA watches 5 hours of TV, not to mention those who read corporate newspapers, that is a lot of constructing what issues are important, and who is to be trusted as "experts." So what is the way to awaken people? In the same way as one would deal with a person involved in a cult.

1) Get them to question -- find something that they believe but the media tends to take issue with. Ask them if they can't trust the media take on that issue how is it they trust how the media deals with the rest.
2) Expose them to how media is controlled by a small number of corporations and how the government takes advantage of this concentration.
3) Once they question, them reinforce them until they finally can no longer trust the media. During this process introduce them to independent media they can trust.

As long as we live in a society with a media oligopoly then we must tackle the media hold on the public mind in order to expose that mind to true reality.

 

[Suzanimal]

How the American government is trying to control what you think

NASA tweeting that Congress should give it more money so our astronauts won’t have to ride on Russian rockets. Recovery.gov reporting overly optimistic statistics on jobs saved and created by stimulus funds. The Department of Health and Human Service Web site encouraging the public to “state your support for health care reform” during the congressional debate over Obamacare.

These are just some recent examples of the executive branch using our tax dollars to shape our opinions. Unlike the National Security Agency’s personal data collection or the overuse of “secret” stamps to withhold information, this government-produced propaganda receives almost no attention. But that doesn’t mean this “third dimension” of government information is not a problem. America becomes less democratic when the $3 trillion executive branch uses its resources to tilt the debate in its favor.

Of course, a democratic government has an obligation to inform and be transparent. Citizens need to know the government’s policies and plans. We have a right to know which companies receive government contracts, how to collect insurance benefits and social security payments and what public school educational reform will look like. But too often, the government uses its information machinery to do more than simply inform us about a policy. Sometimes, it tries to persuade us to adopt a particular position, regardless of its efficacy.

Consider, for example, the Department of Labor’s campaign to raise the minimum wage, a topic on which there is considerable debate. Raising the minimum wage, the Congressional Budget Office points out, will eliminate some jobs. Still, the government devotes a Web page to the topic that proclaims, “See how raising the national minimum wage will benefit America’s workers.” Americans are invited to tell the Labor Department why they “support raising the federal minimum wage.” Twitter users can see a video of a squiggle of mustard spelling out “#RaiseTheWage” on a hot dog, a reference to the recent interest group advocacy to pay fast-food employers more money. The Labor Department’s Web page treats raising the minimum wage as an unalloyed good and labels possible job losses a “myth.”

Such aggressive communications are neither novel nor exceptional. Government agencies historically have made a habit of crossing the blurry line between informing the public and propagandizing.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/post...vernment-is-trying-to-control-what-you-think/

 

[Edward777]

Even movies and written literature come under the review of the US government:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/iron-man-transformers-censored-military-6050507

 

[Schifference]

People are strange. The other day I was telling a co-worker about the guy defending himself in Texas in a capital punishment case. The one regarding using a shocking device on the defendant that was representing himself. The judge ordered the guy shocked because he refused to stand for the judge. The co-worker thought that was inappropriate and wrong until I actually read it from this forum. Once I got to the part that he was accused of beating or killing his wife all of a sudden he deserved whatever he got.

 

[timosman]

People are strange. The other day I was telling a co-worker about the guy defending himself in Texas in a capital punishment case. The one regarding using a shocking device on the defendant that was representing himself. The judge ordered the guy shocked because he refused to stand for the judge. The co-worker thought that was inappropriate and wrong until I actually read it from this forum. Once I got to the part that he was accused of beating or killing his wife all of a sudden he deserved whatever he got.

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?482778-The-Dark-Side-of-Empathy

 

[Edward777]

Media controls perception though. A lot of people I know will always preface a statement about Putin with, "I'm not a supporter of Putin's policies, but..." So then when they share a particular policy they like I ask them what policies they don't like. They usually look really confused and are unable to respond because they don't know. It has just been drilled into them that to be a true American they have to oppose Russia and Putin.

 

[devil21]

Read this, starting page 12. It's an updated version of the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion and incorporates media mind control propaganda through digital tech into the old Protocols. You'll be surprised to read that stuff happening TODAY was planned by globalists 30 years ago.

http://www.phoenixsourcedistributors.com/070718.pdf

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Original Protocols for those that haven't read them.
http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/przion1.htm

 

[Edward777]

You'll be surprised to read that stuff happening TODAY was planned by globalists 30 years ago.

That is for sure. Some people actually think the "migrant" situation today is spontaneous but it is not. The effort to get Europeans and Americans to have less children (starting back in 1970) was to reduce the young base and then bring in new young people from different cultures, leaving the older, childless, peoples to continue providing a tax base for the transition.

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Original Protocols for those that haven't read them.
http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/przion1.htm[/QUOTE]