Posted on 02/08/2025 10:40:03 AM PST by CharlesOConnell
The collapse of the 20th-century media pyramid on which Lippmann’s assumptions rested, and its rapid replacement by monopoly social media platforms, made it possible for the Obama White House to sell policy—and reconfigure social attitudes and prejudices—in new ways. ... the term “echo chambers” to describe the process by which the White House and its wider penumbra of think tanks and NGOs generated an entirely new class of experts who credentialed each other on social media in order to advance assertions that would formerly have been seen as marginal or not credible, thereby overwhelming the efforts of traditional subject-area gatekeepers and reporters to keep government spokespeople honest. In constructing these echo chambers, the White House created feedback loops that could be gamed out in advance by clever White House aides, thereby influencing and controlling the perceptions of reporters, editors and congressional staffers, and the elusive currents of “public opinion” they attempted to follow.
(Excerpt) Read more at tabletmag.com ...
In the case of this article, the legacy "gatekeeper" media of the Big 3 TV Networks, the NY Times, Washington Post and Wall St. Journal, were replaced by anyone who had the intellectual vigor to take over the narrative. It caused people who had noticed, that
* the JFK assassination limousine slowed down nearly to a stop instead of speeding off,
* that Jack Ruby said he "did it" so that his religious group wouldn't be blamed,
* that L.A. Coroner Thomas Nagouchi ruled that RFK Sr. was shot from less than 3 inches behind his right ear, whereas Sirhan Sirhan shot wildly toward RFK from 6 feet in front,
* that Building 7's collapse was obviously a controlled implosion, and
* that the harmless Sars-Covid 2008 without a furin cleavage site without which it could not penetrate the blood-brain barrier was artificially engineered both in the infection and the vaccine.
The Obama official tasked with inducing snow-blindness into the new, open information universe, the husband of AID's rent-a-riot manager, Samantha Powers, is Cass Sunstein, administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Obama administration from 2009 to 2012, who wrote of the technique to dilute the effects of "conspiracy theories" as "cognitive infiltration".
This steals back the thunder from the internet as information revolution, returning it to the hands of the old clique that hid the realities from the public.
Please, oh please, NEVER EVER associate Dorkbama, the Muslim eunuch quota baby with thinking. He was, is now, and always will be a media-level fake when it comes to anything related to intellect.
I hope it’s destroyed.
What will it take for the Right, FReepers, and Patriots to know that the GREATEST threat to our lives, liberties, and well being is the $3+ Trillion, 80%+ unconstitutional portion of the federal gov't which MUST BE DISMANTLED NOW!!!
God bless Musk and DOGE - don't let up until the WHOLE job is DONE!!!
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A lot of people don't know about the electromagnet which was place in the storm drain under the street. It was switched on at just the right moment and its massive attraction held the limo there momentarily while Barbara Bush hid on the grassy knoll taking potshots.
That would explain why everybody's watches stopped at 12:30.
“...it was like a fever was spreading, and no one was immune. Spouses, children, colleagues, and supervisors at work began reciting, with the force of true believers, slogans they had only learned last week, and that they were very often powerless to provide the slightest real-world evidence for.
These sudden, sometimes overnight, appearances of beliefs, phrases, tics, looked a lot like the mass social contagions of the 1950s—one episode after another of rapid-onset political enlightenment replacing the appearance of dance crazes or Hula-Hoops...”
Barry was never a Muslim. He just wanted the power islam gives to demons. Barry worshipped himself and nothing else. He is evil beyond comparison.
Good thing it was Barbara Bush taking the shots, because any of the men from the lamebrain Bush family couldn’t shoot the way a wet paper bag
Jeb Bush would’ve missed and still asked everyone to clap
*** electromagnet ***
Wide Right !!!
Yes, he’s as evil as anyone who has ever lived.
A very interesting article.
Am surprised a former writer for NY Magazine so happily is taking down the leftist Obama cult-of-personality
Unlike the author, I don’t believe Obama to be some kind of genius political operator. I think Obama is the person his biography revealed - a low-IQ choom gang idiot who bounced around universities, hides his transcripts, somehow got into Harvard while never writing a thing (including his own biographies), who took drugs and was a homosexual.
This was simply the online application of an older Alinsky tactic. A small number would go to a speech or rally of an opponent and consciously position themselves on the outer edges/corners of the audience. One would yell out in objection to speaker drawing the entire crowd's attention to that individual, then another in an opposite corner would yell out in support of the first rabble rouser, with maybe another one or two in other parts of the crowd also piping up.
This way it created the psychological illusion that opposition to the speaker's views was more widespread than those in the crowd may have believed, when in fact it was only 3 or 4 ne'er-do-wells in a crowd of hundreds.
All President Jarret did was have her flying monkey Axelrods develop the strategy to apply this concept online.
Needless to say, the model of politics in which operatives are constantly running permission structure games on the body politic, assisted by members of the press and think tankers eager to be of service to the party, has more in common with pyramid schemes and high-pressure network-marketing scams than it does with reasoned democratic deliberation and debate.
And with cults, like Scientology.
We have had some terrible presidents. I don’t think any of them match the vile evil of Barry Soetero. Worse are the people that voted for that SOB.
Anytime the truth about a real conspiracy starts to leak out, it is essential that the memespace be flooded with vaguely relevant nonsense.
Are you running a child prostitution ring with the goal of honeypotting important politicians and government officials? If people start to notice, start feeding stories about how it’s all being run from the basement of a pizza place that doesn’t have a basement.
Don’t let assorted unrelated nonsense distract you.
It’s called the “Diamond Tactic”. It was described and discussed somewhat in this thread:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2657811/posts
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