Media is a medium of communication. Propaganda is the following:
The rule of disfiguration: discrediting the opposition by crude smears and parodies.
The rule of transfusion: manipulating the consensus values of the target audience for one's own ends.
The rule of unanimity: presenting one's viewpoint as if it were the unanimous opinion of all right-thinking people: draining the doubting individual into agreement by the appeal of star-performers, by social pressure, and by 'psychological contagion'.
The rule of orchestration: endlessly repeating the same messages in different variations and combinations.
Excellent. Thanks for the nice break down. I'll freely admit I know about propaganda from the brief historical records, documents, and of course media pieces I've seen in my life. My view of the topic is formed by observation over several decades. Thus, it is very nice to see such a straightforward summary. I believe I may actually have seen similar information before, in fact I am certain of it, but as with many things these days... having so much information at our finger tips can make it easy to forget where you saw something.
One arm of it. EDIT: and not all of it. A large portion of it these days though yes.
Very much so... research the history of propaganda and it becomes pretty obvious. At least I think it was obvious. I could be wrong.
I think this is the most entertaining way to explore this idea I've come across:
Nice video.
Media is a medium of communication. Propaganda is the following:
The rule of disfiguration: discrediting the opposition by crude smears and parodies.
The rule of transfusion: manipulating the consensus values of the target audience for one's own ends.
The rule of unanimity: presenting one's viewpoint as if it were the unanimous opinion of all right-thinking people: draining the doubting individual into agreement by the appeal of star-performers, by social pressure, and by 'psychological contagion'.
The rule of orchestration: endlessly repeating the same messages in different variations and combinations.
Nuff said...
Excellent. Thanks for the nice break down. I'll freely admit I know about propaganda from the brief historical records, documents, and of course media pieces I've seen in my life. My view of the topic is formed by observation over several decades. Thus, it is very nice to see such a straightforward summary. I believe I may actually have seen similar information before, in fact I am certain of it, but as with many things these days... having so much information at our finger tips can make it easy to forget where you saw something.