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The Propaganda Machine
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The Propaganda Machine
Propaganda is the deliberate, systematic attempt to shape perceptions, manipulate cognitions, and direct behavior to achieve a response that furthers the desired intent of the propagandist.
—Garth S. Jowett and Victoria O'Donnell, Propaganda and Persuasion
Per Wikipedia: "Propaganda is a concerted set of messages aimed at influencing the opinions or behaviors of large numbers of people. As opposed to impartially providing information, propaganda in its most basic sense presents information in order to influence its audience. Propaganda often presents facts selectively (thus lying by omission) to encourage a particular synthesis, or gives loaded messages in order to produce an emotional rather than rational response to the information presented. The desired result is a change of the cognitive narrative of the subject in the target audience to further a political agenda."
Know progaganda when you see it! Main Stream Media(MSM) has gone down the progagand path in my lifetime. THINK about it. Apart from man bites dog stories, does MSM report the news ... or do they tell you what they want you to hear (Analysis, they call it)?
Truly amazing to me is when producers of biased films call them 'documentaries' ... as if the word documentary imparts a sense of legitimacy. In a way it does, but any fair-minded person will agree that the algore film is one-sided and the current master of deceit is one Michael Moore. Not since Nazi Propaganda by Joseph Goebbels (1933-1945) has the world seen a more biased socialist. Well, I may be stretching that one a bit, so if you have a better idea send me an email.