Posted on 02/14/2015 8:22:30 PM PST by Reverend Saltine
by Jon Rappoport February 14, 2015 http://www.nomorefakenews.com
The news is all about artificially manipulating the context of stories. The thinner the context, the thinner the mind must become to accept it. If you want to visualize this, imagine a rectangular solid. The news covers the top surface. Therefore, the mind is trained to work in only two dimensions. Then it cant fathom depth, and it certainly cant appreciate the fact that the whole rectangular solid moves through time, the fourth dimension. (The Underground, Jon Rappoport)
Focus on the network evening news. This is where the staging is done well.
First, we have the image itself, the colors in foreground and background, the blend of restful and charged hues. The anchor and his/her smooth style.
Then we have the shifting of venue from the studio to reporters in the field, demonstrating the reach of coverage: the planet. As if this equals authenticity.
Actually, those reporters in the field rarely dig up information on location. A correspondent standing on a rooftop in Cairo could just as well be positioned in a bathroom in a Las Vegas McDonalds. His report would be identical.
The managing editor, usually the elite news anchor, chooses the stories to cover and has the final word on their sequence.
The anchor goes on the air: Our top story tonight, more signs of gridlock today on Capitol Hill, as legislators walked out of a session on federal budget negotiations
The viewer fills in the context for the story: Oh yes, the government. Gridlock is bad. Just like traffic on the I-5. A bad thing. We want the government to get something done, but theyre not. These people are always arguing with each other. They dont agree. Theyre in conflict. Yes, conflict, just like on the cop shows.
The anchor: The Chinese government reports the new flu epidemic has spread to three provinces. Forty-two people have already died, and nearly a hundred are hospitalized
The viewer again supplies context, such as it is: Flu. Dangerous. Epidemic. Could it arrive here? Get my flu shot.
The anchor: A new university study states that gun owners often stock up on weapons and ammunition, and this trend has jumped quickly since the Newtown, Connecticut, school-shooting tragedy
The viewer: People with guns. Why do they need a dozen weapons? I dont need a gun. The police have guns. Could I kill somebody if he broke into the house?
The anchor: Doctors at Yale University have made a discovery that could lead to new treatments in the battle against autism
Viewer: That would be good. More research. Laboratory. The brain.
If, at the end of the newscast, the viewer bothered to review the stories and his own reactions to them, he would realize hed learned nothing. But reflection is not the game.
In fact, the flow of the news stories has washed over him and created very little except a sense of (false) continuity.
It would never occur to him to wonder: are the squabbling political legislators really two branches of the same Party? Does government have the Constitutional right to incur this much debt? Where is all that money coming from? Taxes? Other sources? Who invents money?
Is the flu dangerous for most people? If not, why not? Do governments overstate case numbers? How do they actually test patients for the flu? Are the tests accurate? Are they just trying to convince us to get vaccines?
What happens when the government has overwhelming force and citizens have no guns?
When researchers keep saying may and could, does that mean theyve actually discovered something useful about autism, or are they just hyping their own work and trying to get funding for their next project?
These are only a few of the many questions the typical viewer never considers.
Therefore, every story on the news broadcast achieves the goal of keeping the context thinnight after night, year after year. The overall effect of this staging is small viewer, small viewers mind, small viewers understanding.
Next we come to words over pictures. More and more, news broadcasts are using the rudimentary film technique of a voice narrating what the viewer is seeing on the screen.
People are shouting and running and falling in a street. The anchor or a field reporter says: The country is in turmoil. Parliament has suspended sessions for the third day in a row, as the government decides what to do about uprisings aimed at forcing democratic elections
Well, the voice must be right, because were seeing the pictures. If the voice said the riots were due to garbage-pickup cancellations, the viewer would believe that, too.
We see Building #7 of the WTC collapse. Must have been the result of a fire. The anchor tells us so. Words over pictures.
We see footage of Lee Harvey Oswald inside the Dallas police station. The anchor tells hes about to be transferred, under heavy guard, to another location. Oswald must be guilty, because were seeing him in a police station, and the anchor just said under heavy guard.
Staged news.
It mirrors what the human mind, in an infantile state, is always doing: looking at the world and seeking a brief summary to explain what that world is, at any given moment.
Since the dawn of time, untold billions of people have been urging a television anchor to explain the pictures.
The news gives them that precise thing, that precise solution, every night.
Well, Mr. Jones, the doctor says, as he pins X-rays to a screen in his office. See this? Right here? Well need to start chemo immediately, and then we may have to remove most of your brain, and as a follow-up, take out one eye.
Sure, why not? The patient saw the pictures and the anchor explained them.
After watching and listening to a month or two of news planted with key words, the population is ready to see the President or one of his minions step up to a microphone and say, Quantitative easing sequester
Reaction? Oh, yes, thats right, Ive heard those words before. Good.
A month later, those two terms disappear, as if theyd never existed.
Eventually, people get the idea and do it for themselves. They see things, they invent one-liners to explain them.
Theyre their own anchors. They short-cut and undermine their own experience with vapid summaries of what it all means.
And then, of course, when the news cuts to commercial, the fake products takes over:
Well, every night theyre showing the same brand names, so those brands must be better than the unnamed alternatives.
Which devolves into: I like this commercial better than that commercial. This is a great commercial. Lets have a contest and vote on the best commercial.
Hello. Im staged reality and Im doing ads to promote me.
For intelligent viewers, there is another sober mainstream choice, a safety valve: PBS. That newscast tends to show more pictures from foreign lands.
Yes, I watch PBS because they understand the planet is interconnected. It isnt just about America. Thats good.
Sure its good, if you want the same thin-context or false-context reporting on events in other countries. Instead of the two minutes NBC might give you about momentous happenings in Iraq, PBS will give you four minutes, plus congenial experts commenting abstractly, employing longer words.
PBS experts seem kinder and gentler. Theyre nice and theyre more relaxed. I like that.
Yes, the PBS experts are taking Valium, and theyre not drinking as much coffee as the CBS experts.
Anchors deliver the long con every night on the tube, between commercials.
Staged.
Theyre marketing thin context.
And of course, the science promoted on the network news is also derived from marketing efforts at major government agencies, such as the CDC.
The anchor says, Medical experts are now taking a heavier approach to parents who refuse to vaccinate their children and deny the benefits of vaccines.
What sits behind that statement?
The announcement of so-called epidemics and outbreaks are part of a strategy for marketing vaccines. Its obvious.
For example, read this from the World Health Organization Fact Sheet, Number 11, dated March 2014:
Influenza occurs globally Worldwide, these annual epidemics are estimated to result in about 3 to 5 million cases of severe illness, and about 250 000 to 500 000 deaths.
Now consider the current measles outbreak in the US. 150 cases, and no deaths.
In the case of worldwide flu, WHO and the CDC choose not to hype and propagandize; but in the case of the measles, its suddenly all hands on deck and fear, fear, fear.
Why?
Because its time. Its time to inflate the seriousness of a standard childhood disease. Its time to focus on the children. Its time, once again, to offset the massive rebellion against vaccination exploding in the US population. Its time to engender fear. Its time to attack anti-vaccination researchers. Its time to take another step in the direction of mandating vaccines. Its time to introduce bills in legislatures that cancel legal exemptions from vaccines and cancel freedom of choice. Its time for more medical fascism. Its time to paint parents who dont vaccinate as terrorists. Its time to paint their children as little biowar weapons loose in the community.
Its time to advance the medical police state.
And oh yes, its time to divert attention away from the fact that even conventional researchers and the CDC admit this years flu vaccine is geared to the wrong virus and is useless (but you should take it anyway).
The designation of outbreaks and epidemics is arbitrary. Well take THIS as an epidemic and well ignore THAT as an epidemic.
Its very much like marketing, because it is marketing.
Lets see, Bob. Which one of the items in our sales catalog should we push hard this quarter? The bikini or the leather boots?
You know, we havent hyped the measles vaccine for a while. How about an outbreak of measles? Can we sell that? Focus on the kiddies? Well need about 100 cases, well say they all came from one source, like a playground or an amusement park, and well claim its very, very serious
Do we have a good front man to go on television and promote the fear factor? How about that maniac who thinks any kid can handle 10,000 vaccines? Or the schmuck from UCLA. Maybe a woman doctor, a mother with three kids. You know, soapy dopey.
When the propaganda pros decide which way to go they issue a statement, a press release, and this release is picked up by the news shows:
Medical experts are criticizing parents who refuse to vaccinate their children and deny the proven benefits of vaccines.
There are various forms of mind control. The one Im describing herethe thinning of contextis universal. It confounds the mind by pretending depth doesnt exist and is merely a fantasy.
The mind, before it is trained away from it, is always interested in depth.
Another way of putting it: the mind naturally wants more space, not less. Only constant conditioning can change this.
Eventually, when you say mind, people think youre referring to the brain, or they dont know what youre talking about at all.
Mind control by eradicating the concept of mind. Thats quite a trick.
Jon Rappoport The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free emails at http://www.nomorefakenews.com
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