"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."
After watching and reading an outstanding piece done on fake news by @krnel entitled Tell-Lie-Vision, I thought I might provide a bit of historical insight. Although @krnel's piece is far better than mine, I hope I might add something to the mix.
The Nazi Minister of Propaganda, Josef Goebbels realized the importance of controlling the narrative by utilizing whatever media was available...in his day it was primarily radio, newspapers and movies. The Party gained control of the papers almost immediately mostly through violence and threats thereof. Goebbels used the radio with great effectiveness, Hitler's radio addresses are still used to show how powerful a speaker he was holding large audiences in rapt attention. It was, however, the use of the cinema that the Nazis excelled. The German cinematographers had been masters at using techniques such as light and shadowing with great effectiveness. Movie makers like Fritz Lang and F.W. Murnau are two prime examples. Anyone who has seen Murnau's "Nosferatu" will know what I mean. When the Nazis began their propaganda films they called on Leni Riefenstahl to direct them.
Riefenstahl's "Triumph of the Will" was one of the first showing the Nazis as "saviors" of the German people. Later films almost inevitably showed the noble Germans (Aryans) bathed in light, especially the children (Sonnenkinder- Children of the Sun) and the "others" (Jews, Gypsies, Slavs, etc.) as shadowy threatening figures, lurking about waiting to pounce. This was accomplished very effectively.
After the war, during the relative prosperity of the Eisenhower years, a proliferation of televisions appeared in American homes and with them, TV News. Fatherly figures such as Walter Cronkite, with trustworthy faces telling us about current events. Two other things happened in post-war America as well: Operation Paperclip & Operation Mockingbird. Operation Paperclip ostensibly brought us German scientists eager to flee the encroaching Soviet Army. Scientists like Wernher von Braun- a Colonel in the Nazi SS. The American OSS (Military Intelligence) had evolved into the fledgling CIA and its very possible that some of the "scientists" recruited were actually German spies, given the Nazi propensity for espionage.
The other operation, Operation Mockingbird is covered in this video, as well in krnel's article:
With the proliferation of televisions came a proliferation of critics who saw the potential for misuse. One fine example is Harlan Ellison's "The Glass Teat." Marx once stated that "religion is the opiate of the masses." It would appear that by the 1970's, religion was replaced by TV.
Currently, the hegemony on information held by the MSM is being threatened by alternative media, predominantly on the internet. It almost goes without saying that we live in "The Information Age." The last election saw the MSM fighting to maintain control in what many call The Info War. It can be reasonably argued that Donald Trump owes his victory to the internet. The hue and cry over "Fake News" sounds like the death knell of the MSM. If you catch them at their lies and expose them, you are a fake news outlet. They just don't seem to get it: nobody believes them anymore. They told the lie over and over expecting people to believe them, just like Goebbels promised...But the truth triumphed. Which brings us to pizzagate.
Given the overwhelming evidence, I believe it must be true and the MSM is trying to cover it up. The MSM is corporate news and the elites that run it are the same elites that pretty much run America. They ALL have a lot to lose if pizzagate turns out to be true, hence the coverup. But what if its a plant, designed to discredit alternative news sources...a false flag?
Titus Frost, who has been investigating (along with a multitude of others) explains how it won't work in the first couple of minutes of the video. The alternative media broadcasts accurate info as they get it. If the facts change, so does the narrative. The MSM doesn't understand this...they pick a narrative and stick with it. So if pizzagate turns out to be a Psy Op...it just won't work and neither will the MSM's "Fake News."
I am crazy busy right now with you know what coming right on time, that I have nothing to say except that I am posting and upvoting every single post in this category I can until it gets "accidentally erased"
Thank you!