Anonymous ID: 597dbd March 20, 2022, 6:13 a.m. No.15903961   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

>>15903922

Related point from a piece I just read today:

 

"In the book Inventing Reality, published all the way back in 1986, Michael Parenti makes the following observation:

For many people an issue does not exist until it appears in the news media. How we view issues, indeed, what we even define as an issue or event, what we see and hear, and what we do not see and hear are greatly determined by those who control the communications world. Be it labor unions, peace protesters, the Soviet Union, uprisings in Latin America, elections, crime, poverty, or defense spending, few of us know of things except as they are depicted in the news.

Even when we donโ€™t believe what the media say, we are still hearing or reading their viewpoints rather than some other. They are still setting the agenda, defining what it is we must believe or disbelieve, accept or reject. The media exert a subtle, persistent influence in defining the scope of respectable political discourse, channeling public attention in directions that are essentially supportive of the existing politico-economic system."

 

https://caityjohnstone.medium.com/people-overestimate-the-us-war-machine-and-underestimate-the-us-propaganda-machine-433cf17ea9f1