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Do you research, don't take the word of these corporate puppets appearing in the media as "experts" for the truth....
It is getting harder and harder to find the truth, without a corporate bias...
In the case of our media, "Barry Glassner, a professor of sociology at the University of Southern California, argues that there are three techniques that together make up 'fear mongering:' repetition, making the irregular seem regular, and misdirection."
In the first instance, we used the same word--repetition. If South Africa's apartheid, or the Soviet nuclear threat, had only been mentioned once, no one would have paid any attention to them.
In the second instance, he says, "making the irregular seem regular," and I say "context." It is really the same thing. The example of context I've used is the video we saw of the Taliban supposedly gassing a puppy dog to death in their testing of chemical weapons. Assuming the tape was real, our media never mentioned the tens of thousands of puppy dogs the US gassed to death in ITS chemical weapons program. In this instance, it was "making the regular seem irregular" but context is how it's done.
In the third instance, he says, "misdirection." The way that our media do that, in order to avoid obviously looking like advocates themselves, is to choose "guest experts" who will say what the media want said, as well as by choosing the debate topic. For instance, rather than having people on before the war who questioned the war, and asking them if the war was necessary, they chose people who supported the war, and asked them if we could win it.
There was also a thread on the use of Ex-Generals on various cable news programs that were exposed to have financial ties to various companies that had contracts with the DOD.
News died in America once it became a for profit enterprise. While people will spend endless lifetimes arguing over bias issues among Fox, MSNBC, CNN, etc... they fail to realize that nearly 100% of all what constitutes "news" in our country is first beholden to share holder profits above all things.
While the media may very well have been a liberal endeavor at one time and in fact many who enter into journalism have liberal tendencies, those who own these companies do not.
Corporations have a fiduciary duty to make money, and in their case, they peddle information and news wrapped in pretty shiny packages that sell the most shares. The quality of the information is of no concern, only maximizing profit. Easiest way to achieve this is to keep people fat, dumb, and mesmerized by shiny flashing things while stuffing their empty skulls with fluffy and empty sound bytes created by marketing guru's who making millions filling the world with fools.
Boombustblog.com Does his own reasurch and so comes close to getting at the truth. He isn't corperate he doesn't spout the party line he is good people.
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