ACP45 Loc: Rhode Island

Caitlin Johnstone is a prolific writer/blogger, who espouses a strongly socialistic viewpoint. While we may differ on her socialistic views, I greatly respect her views on narrative management conducted by government and media outlets.

"Caitlin Johnstone says bought politicians and owned news outlets do more harm — out in the open — than government secrecy." https://consortiumnews.com/2020/02/05/the-primary-mechanism-of-oppression-is-not-hidden/

On this, I agree with her.

DaWg44

We lived in Nashville in the early 70’s. A professor at Vanderbilt teaching graduate students gave his 18 students a project on Monday. Each student was to tell only one other person that toilet tissue was going to be in short supply in two weeks because of a shortage in wood supplies due to an usually dry year & the risks of fire in the woods.

By Friday cars had trunks open w/ cases of toil tissue, some tied on the roof. Pick up trucks were full. No matter what store managers said, shelves were emptied as fast as they were filled.

The exercise was to prove the power of propaganda. The only t***h in the initial statement was it had been an unusually dry year.

ACP45 Loc: Rhode Island

Imagine the power of the Google search engine's algorithm that can be tweaked to favor certain PC positions such as anti-vaxers as kook's, and positively accentuate or demean favored political candidates. It's scary that most people don't even suspect their being led by the nose on certain issues.