As far as the media goes it’s another name for propaganda. They use emotions to sell their point of view.
People go for shadows because they’ve long left acquaintance of light.
“As far as the media goes it’s another name for propaganda. They use emotions to sell their point of view.”
Also, believers in propaganda are loyal consumers of the media product. As such they must be kept supplied so their audience share can be sold to marketers of products.
There was a real counter culture in the ‘60’s. I remember the first time I saw a jeans ad featuring a hippy girl with a peace sign on her pocket. I realized that marketers had discovered the counter culture. From that minute is ceased to be real and became a marketing tool. When the real counter culture disappeared marketers created an artificial one. Most recently it is the rap culture.
When you see a jeans model shooting up heroin then they’ve coopted the drug culture too.