THE PROPAGANDA MODEL: CORPORATE/POLITICAL COLLUSION IN CREATION OF OLIGOPOLISTIC MAINSTREAM US MEDIA
I had to trim the thread title to get it to fit. Complete title is: THE PROPAGANDA MODEL: CORPORATE AND POLITICAL COLLUSION IN
THE CREATION OF AN OLIGOPOLISTIC MAINSTREAM U.S. MEDIA
It explains how US media brainwashed the US public.
Hat tip to Dailykos for the find.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/01/26/1182220/-Research-Study-Explains-How-U-S-Media-Brainwashes-The-Public
bemildred
(90,061 posts)I remember being absoutely dumbfounded at the eagerness with which the self-serving bullshit shovelled out starting with Raygun was bolted down by an adoring citizenry. G. H. W. Bush himself took time to adjust to the new reality, he started out calling it "Voodoo Economics", and he was right.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaganomics
truedelphi
(32,324 posts)In Bill Casey's very first speech to CIA recruits, after being made head of CIA, he stated "Our mission is to see that 100% of what every American believes over the next thirty years is a lie."
I am paraphrasing, but not much off the mark of what he stated.
And now we are there. People refuse to believe that if it is "on TV" then it could possibly be false.
And it doesn't matter the level of education either. I have had friends with PhD's tell me that George W's actions were not dangerously approaching fascism, as I claimed, because "after all, if a leader was taking us down a road to fascism, the media would alert us."
Uncle Joe
(58,357 posts)Thanks for the thread, antigop.
antigop
(12,778 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,527 posts)felix_numinous
(5,198 posts)many of us could watch this happening.
antigop
(12,778 posts)felix_numinous
(5,198 posts)thank you for posting this article and data. Freedom of the press goes hand-in-hand with an educated populace. Propaganda thrives in ignorance.
antigop
(12,778 posts)just1voice
(1,362 posts)Unfortunately there are still millions who believe the propaganda and don't even know what it is. It's be great if there were courses in middle or high school that addressed propaganda and exactly what it is but that's just me dreaming.
preventivePhD
(53 posts)Wikipedia has a pretty section on propaganda but no examples in modern politics. Here is a link to some examples. Best link on that page is 10 documentaries about propaganda.
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)"If we actually had state-run media, how much different would it really be?"