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Building Bandwagons: How Media Gets Us On Board
Poletical.com ^ | November 1st, 2012 | R. Rados

Posted on 11/02/2012 9:42:39 AM PDT by PingPongChampion

Just when you thought a respected media source was giving you a fair and balanced piece of information, you realize how misled you've been all along. The pivotal role of psychology in journalism is often understated. Subtlety becomes the key and most people overlook the messages that are being transferred into their subconscious minds by clever wording, photography, and the use of certain key words that have more weight than an entire paragraph. Any reporter or journalist that pedals his own words under the guise of balanced and fair is either delusional or being deliberately deceptive. Balanced journalism is dead.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Miscellaneous; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bandwagon; media; obama; polls

1 posted on 11/02/2012 9:42:43 AM PDT by PingPongChampion
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To: PingPongChampion

Welcome to freerepublic, too bad you only use it to post threads, with no interaction or discussion.


2 posted on 11/02/2012 11:56:46 AM PDT by ansel12 (Vote, but don't pretend.)
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