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The Most Successful Propaganda Techniques [aka Mainstream Media's Style Guide]
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| Nov 29, 2005
Posted on 11/29/2005 6:04:33 AM PST by John Jorsett
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To: John Jorsett
If I read this, will a get an honorary journalism degree?
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posted on
11/29/2005 6:11:38 AM PST
by
austinite
To: austinite
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posted on
11/29/2005 6:13:54 AM PST
by
poobear
(Imagine a world of liberal silence!)
To: John Jorsett
I seriously think a detailed study of propaganda practices in the mainstream media is in order. WE know it; WE see it everyday. But there are literallly millions of unsuspecting Americans who are consuming garbage with their morning coffee, their TV dinners, and the background noise that intervenes. Lies and distortions permeate every sector of the public information arena.
This article is a good start on identifying the techniques the criminals use.
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posted on
11/29/2005 6:15:56 AM PST
by
IronJack
To: John Jorsett; pollyannaish
Very good to see that there are some folks focusing on the more insidious forms of bias attack that are out there. I think that sometimes we get distracted by the marginal ones and let the onslaught of the subtle continue!
Definitely a ping for later, in-depth perusal.
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posted on
11/29/2005 6:17:03 AM PST
by
Gondring
(I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
To: John Jorsett
It's called the Philadelphia Inquirer!
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posted on
11/29/2005 6:17:45 AM PST
by
Doc Savage
("Guys, I've got a fever, and the only prescription is more COWBELL...Bruce Dickinson)
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To: poobear
Actually, there is a more insidious tactic when one or more of the above are combined with the media version of a famous Arabic torture called "death by a thousand cuts".
Slow, methodical, coordinated "cuts" by fake editorials, polls, selective interviews, adjusted facts, revisionist history, minimizing foul behavior, diversion, obfuscation, finger pointing, "how" one sees instead of "what" one reports...etc est.
Feel free to add to this list at any point.
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posted on
11/29/2005 6:21:15 AM PST
by
xcamel
(a system poltergeist stole it.)
To: John Jorsett
Good overall list. Do you remember last year, after the election loss, Harry Reid announced the creation of a Democratic "War Room." So far, this year we have seen the most consistent onslaught of this kind of propaganda. You know the drill. We need to identify the circulators of these lies and corral them in the public's mind. The end of career for Ted Koppel, Dan Rather et al is a good start; the triumph of the new media is a good follow through. More "journalists" and "leaders" need to be put out to pasture.
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posted on
11/29/2005 6:24:33 AM PST
by
mission9
(Be a citizen worth living for, in a Nation worth dying for...)
To: Gondring
Thanks for the heads up. Marking it for later reading and/or commenting.
To: John Jorsett
One of the best articles that I ever read was in a Freshman English course. The article was about how to recognize propaganda. I have used the info for years. This post amplifies the information.
To: John Jorsett
There's another tactic: Spokesman Aesthetics.
When abortion is being debated, they'll get an elderly white man from the rural South in an ill-fitting suit to argue the prolife position while getting an attractive, urbane, stylishly dressed young woman to argue for the pro-murdering kids position.
To: John Jorsett
To: John Jorsett
This is a great resource. I see and hear these tactics being used day after day.
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posted on
11/29/2005 6:33:36 AM PST
by
Darnright
(Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.)
To: John Jorsett
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posted on
11/29/2005 6:36:54 AM PST
by
DBrow
To: austinite
If I read this, will a get an honorary journalism degree? Either a journalism degree or 5-cents, whichever is more valuable.
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posted on
11/29/2005 6:38:34 AM PST
by
jigsaw
(God Bless Our Troops.)
To: John Jorsett
Great Post.
Of course, the MSM most effective and widely used propaganda techniques are the "label game" and omitting facts.
Thats why they constantly using loaded words and have "usage guides". Until - what 1998 or so, illegal aliens were "illegal aliens". Then suddenly according to the MSM they became "undocumented workers" or illegal IMMIGRANTS or sometimes just plain IMMIGRANTS.
And of course of the negative aspects of illegal immigration are simply omitted or treated as a trivial matter.
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posted on
11/29/2005 6:38:56 AM PST
by
rcocean
(Copyright is theft and loved by Hollywood socialists)
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To: John Jorsett
To: John Jorsett; starbase
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posted on
11/29/2005 6:42:36 AM PST
by
caver
(Yes, I did crawl out of a hole in the ground.)
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