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Originally posted by OurManFlint The mass media companies are buisnesses, and thus they are driven by buisness interests, which are profits. There is information that gets reported on everyday, but if the same information is reported by many different outlets, how will a media company earn profits. Well, that's when political theater, and opinions, and rocketfire debate that accomplishes nothing and raises bloodpressures starts forming. It's not the information you report that's important anymore, it's how you report it, whether the information is real or not, whehter it's just opinion or fact. I think the public can't determine the line between opinion and fact anymore, it's so blurred by rhetoric and theatre that people can believe anything that's reported.

True say....

It's hard to believe even the local news never mind something being reported to me from the other side of the world...

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Originally posted by PeacefulWarrior Whoever controls the flow of information garners incredible power over the public. This statement is easy to understand and is becoming more relevant with every passing day. For an excellent brief history of the subject CLICK HERE.

You got that right!!! That's why they continue to target those of us who publically speak out against the status quo!

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Originally posted by ogvh5150 Paperclip Monarch mkultra

Operation Mockingbird

I hold Noam Chomsky's "The Propaganda Model" as a very good explanation of how corporate media works.

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Propaganda Model First presented in their 1988 book Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, the "Propaganda model" views the private media as businesses selling a product — readers and audiences (rather than news) — to other businesses (advertisers). Describing the media's "societal purpose", Chomsky writes, "... the study of institutions and how they function must be scrupulously ignored, apart from fringe elements or a relatively obscure scholarly literature".[1] The theory postulates five general classes of "filters" that determine the type of news that is presented in news media. These five are: Ownership of the medium Medium's funding sources Sourcing Flak Anti-communist ideology The first three are generally regarded by the authors as being the most important. Although the model was based mainly on the characterization of United States media, Chomsky and Herman believe the theory is equally applicable to any country that shares the basic economic structure and organizing principles which the model postulates as the cause of media biases.[2] Chomsky, Noam (1989). Necessary Illusions: Thought Control In Democratic Societies. A selection of Chomsky's posts from the ChomskyChat Forum

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Originally posted by PeacefulWarrior Whoever controls the flow of information garners incredible power over the public. This statement is easy to understand and is becoming more relevant with every passing day. For an excellent brief history of the subject CLICK HERE.

I was born into this universe years too early, for this to be resurrected now as truth.

Live on words, and we will live on, as words.

Ideas die hard.

Wikipedia: conspiracy theory guide

3 Reduces morally complex social phenomena to simple, immoral actions;
Impersonal, institutional processes, especially errors and oversights, interpreted as malign, consciously intended and designed by immoral individuals.

4 Personifies complex social phenomena as powerful individual conspirators;
Related to (3) but distinct from it, deduces the existence of powerful individual conspirators from the 'impossibility' that a chain of events lacked direction by a person.

5 Allots superhuman talents or resources to conspirators;
May require conspirators to possess unique discipline, unrepentant resolve, advanced or unknown technology, uncommon psychological insight, historical foresight, unlimited resources, etc.

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Retard.

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Originally posted by culorut ^^ Retard.

Have some respect.

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Originally posted by DJ Shibby Have some respect.

I'm definitely guilty of being disrespectful as well.

It's difficult to respect ignorant people, though, and that's where I often have problems.

I'm working on it.

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Originally posted by Trancer-X I'm definitely guilty of being disrespectful as well. It's difficult to respect ignoranct people, though, and that's where I often have problems. I'm working on it.

Ignorant because they disagree with you? That's life, learn to deal with it...

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