Propaganda, and the Main Stream Media ------------------------------------- See also: F:\___World\Conspiracy\__Internet_control_and_sabotage http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/11-the-media-can-legally-lie/ 11. The Media Can Legally Lie 20160806 http://www.foxbghsuit.com/ FLASHBACK - The FOX News Synthetic Bovine Growth Hormone Lawsuit After a five-week trial and six hours of deliberation which ended August 18, 2000, a Florida state court jury unanimously determined that Fox "acted intentionally and deliberately to falsify or distort the plaintiffs' news reporting on BGH." In that decision, the jury also found that Jane's threat to blow the whistle on Fox's misconduct to the FCC was the sole reason for the termination... and the jury awarded $425,000 in damages which makes her eligible to apply for reimbursement for all court costs, expenses and legal fees. WRH: I am getting emails from people insisting that the corporate media would never bias it's reporting in favor of Hillary (despite the on-air admission by CNN) and that they would never lie about Trump's poll numbers. To those naive innocents (or shills) this lawsuit is the perfect rebuttal. FOX News assigned two reporters, Steve Wilson, and Jane Akre, to do a "puff piece" story on Monsanto's Synthetic Bovine Growth Hormone. But while researching the story, Wilson and Akre uncovered serious health problems in people who consumed the meat and dairy products from treated cows. When they presented their finished story to FOX, management, under pressure from Monsanto, first tried to bribe them to change the story, then fired them. Wilson and Akre sued and won, but here is where it gets interesting. FOX won on the appeal on the grounds that there is no law that obligates the corporate media to tell the truth to the public. The Appeals court agreed. In short, corporate media has a right to order their presstitutes and whorespondants to lie in their reports, and if they refuse, they can legally be fired. And THAT tells you all you need to know about the corporate media's truthfulness! 20121130 http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/bernprop.html Propaganda (1928) (Includes text of the book, supposedly. But is it unaltered? Bugger. Original copies cost!) by Edward Bernays (review by Chomsky) [The] American business community was also very impressed with the propaganda effort. They had a problem at that time. The country was becoming formally more democratic. A lot more people were able to vote and that sort of thing. The country was becoming wealthier and more people could participate and a lot of new immigrants were coming in, and so on. So what do you do? It's going to be harder to run things as a private club. Therefore, obviously, you have to control what people think. There had been public relation specialists but there was never a public relations industry. There was a guy hired to make Rockefeller's image look prettier and that sort of thing. But this huge public relations industry, which is a U.S. invention and a monstrous industry, came out of the first World War. The leading figures were people in the Creel Commission. In fact, the main one, Edward Bernays, comes right out of the Creel Commission. He has a book that came out right afterwards called Propaganda. The term "propaganda," incidentally, did not have negative connotations in those days. It was during the second World War that the term became taboo because it was connected with Germany, and all those bad things. But in this period, the term propaganda just meant information or something like that. So he wrote a book called Propaganda around 1925, and it starts off by saying he is applying the lessons of the first World War. The propaganda system of the first World War and this commission that he was part of showed, he says, it is possible to "regiment the public mind every bit as much as an army regiments their bodies." These new techniques of regimentation of minds, he said, had to be used by the intelligent minorities in order to make sure that the slobs stay on the right course. We can do it now because we have these new techniques. This is the main manual of the public relations industry. Bernays is kind of the guru. He was an authentic Roosevelt/Kennedy liberal. He also engineered the public relations effort behind the U.S.-backed coup which overthrew the democratic government of Guatemala. His major coup, the one that really propelled him into fame in the late 1920s, was getting women to smoke. Women didn't smoke in those days and he ran huge campaigns for Chesterfield. You know all the techniques—models and movie stars with cigarettes coming out of their mouths and that kind of thing. He got enormous praise for that. So he became a leading figure of the industry, and his book was the real manual. -- Noam Chomsky (From Chomsky's "What Makes Mainstream Media Mainstream": a talk at Z Media Institute, June 1997) QUOTES "The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society." -- Edward Bernays, 'father' of modern public relations (PR), on government propaganda. "The CIA owns everyone of any significance in the major media." -– William Colby, former CIA director "We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -– William Casey, CIA Director (from first staff meeting, 1981. As recorded by the investigative journalist, Mrs. Mae Brussell. See http://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/1wa0zm/well_know_our_disinformation_program_is_complete/ ) "Deception is a state of mind and the mind of the State." -– James Angleton, head of CIA counter intelligence from 1954-1974 "I never would have agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in forty-seven, if I had known it would become the American Gestapo." -– Harry S. Truman "The individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists." -– J. Edgar Hoover, ex-FBI director on the New World Order conspiracy "If the American people knew what we have done, they would string us up from the lamp posts." -– George H. W. Bush " I will splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the winds." -– John F. Kennedy "Fifty men have run America, and that’s a high figure." -– Joseph Kennedy, father of JFK, in the July 26th, l936 issue of The New York Times "There is no such thing, at this date of the world’s history, in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar weekly salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth; to lie outright; to pervert; to vilify; to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities, and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes." -– John Swinton, former New York Times Chief of Staff "I have the greatest admiration for your propaganda. Propaganda in the West is carried out by experts who have had the best training in the world -- in the field of advertizing -- and have mastered the techniques with exceptional proficiency ... Yours are subtle and persuasive; ours are crude and obvious ... I think that the fundamental difference between our worlds, with respect to propaganda, is quite simple. You tend to believe yours ... and we tend to disbelieve ours." -- a Soviet correspondent based five years in the U.S. "It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion." -- Joseph Goebbels (1897-1945) Chomsky - Manufacturing Consent. (book) Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky show that, contrary to the usual image of the news media as cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitous in their search for truth and defense of justice, in their actual practice they defend the economic, social, and political agendas of the privileged groups that dominate domestic society, the state, and the global order. 20121203 http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/rosenberg-p9.1.1.html It's Happening Faster Than Even I Thought by Paul Rosenberg (Via http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-12-02/guest-post-reality-has-consequences ) 20101128 http://saladin-avoiceinthewilderness.blogspot.com/2010/11/everything-is-lie-deliberate-intent-to.html Everything Is A Lie: The Deliberate Intent To Deceive People Is At An All Time High From pollution to politics, the era of deception and duplicity has reached new heights and hijacked almost every form of media in the world. In the last frontiers for truth such as the internet, disinformation operations are in full swing to discredit and destroy any semblance of authentic and factual information available to the public. How many more lies will people around the world accept as truth? Some say a global awakening is taking place, but at what cost? Will it take the destruction of most of the earth and its resources before people are enlightened? 20110521 http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/05/disinformation-fighting-toolkit.html Friday, May 20, 2011 Disinformation-Fighting Toolkit http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/05/twenty-five-rules-of-disinformation.html http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/02/government-and-big-business-gaming.html Disinformation about disinformation, from pro-govt sources ----------------------------------------------------------- http://usinfo.state.gov/media/Archive/2005/Jul/27-595713.html How to Identify Misinformation Operation Mockingbird http://www.worldreports.org/news/111_paulson_diversion_masked_theft_of_44_trillion ------extract----- If so, what is the problem? Why all the concern? Since the report appeared in the ‘alternative media’, it supposedly cannot be true – the reverse of the lie that if a report has not been published in the so-called ‘mainstream’ (a.k.a., ‘sidestream’, or ‘latestream’) media, it cannot be true either. Welcome to Operation Mockingbird. 'OPERATION MOCKINGBIRD' BLOCKS COVERAGE IN THE ‘MAINSTREAM’ Those correspondents who have flooded the Editor with emails complaining that the report cannot be true because it hasn’t appeared in the ‘mainstream’ need to look up Operation Mockingbird – the US criminal counterintelligence community’s long-established media control programme, which has been running for decades. Just type Operation Mockingbird into your browser or Google and read all about it. This programme has for decades successfully denied the American people the truth about issues that the criminal intelligence community, which controls the US Government, wishes to disguise or to obfuscate. Therefore, rather than shoot the true messenger with the usual knee-jerk response that ‘the report hasn’t been confirmed in the mainstream, so it cannot be true’, serious students of the Dark Forces engaged in destroying America should equip themselves with this background, if only to spare the Editor and others who are trying to prevent the collapse at the hands of these criminals, from being inundated by emailers who haven’t done their homework. ---------- http://websites.psychology.uwa.edu.au/labs/cogscience/Publications/AmPsych4production_Lew_Stri_Freund_Ober_13.pdf (High irony that the 2nd example used is AGW - on the warmist side.) http://www.infiniteunknown.net/2012/02/29/cia-admits-using-msm-to-manipulate-the-usa-video/ http://www.ldsfreedomforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=26909 Everything the public believes is False http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_of_silence The spiral of silence is a political science and mass communication theory propounded by the German political scientist Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann. Spiral of silence theory describes the process by which one opinion becomes dominant as those who perceive their opinion to be in the minority do not speak up because society threatens individuals with fear of isolation. The assessment of one's social environment may not always be correct with reality. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_influence_on_public_opinion At various times, under its own authority or in accordance with directives from the President of the United States or the National Security Council staff, the Central Intelligence Agency has attempted to influence domestic and international public opinion, and sometimes law enforcement. This article does not address, other than incidental to influencing opinion or actions reasonably associated with CIA security, possibly illegal domestic surveillance. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird Operation Mockingbird was a secret campaign by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to influence media. Begun in the 1950s, it was initially organized by Cord Meyer and Allen W. Dulles, it was later led by Frank Wisner after Dulles became the head of the CIA. The organization recruited leading American journalists into a network to help present the CIA's views, and funded some student and cultural organizations, and magazines as fronts. As it developed, it also worked to influence foreign media and political campaigns, in addition to activities by other operating units of the CIA. http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/07/12/us_backs_off_propaganda_ban_spreads_government_made_news_to_americans U.S. Repeals Propaganda Ban, Spreads Government-Made News to Americans "The propaganda system allows the U.S. Ieadership to commit crimes without limit and with no suggestion of misbehavior or criminality; in fact, major war criminals like Henry Kissinger appear regularly on TV to comment on the crimes of the derivative butchers." -- Edward Herman, Z magazine Dec 1999 p38 "Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day. I really look with commiseration over the great body of my fellow citizens, who, reading newspapers, live and die in the belief that they have known something of what has been passing in the world." -- Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Norvell, June 14, 1807. http://www.rense.com/general64/decon.htm Deconstructing Hollywood Mind-Control Subliminal Propaganda Sleazes Onto The Big Screen By Mark Green and Wendy Campbell 4-16-5 20140425 http://www.rickety.us/2008/11/how-to-recognize-propaganda/ How To Recognize Propaganda We are fooled by propaganda because we do not recognize it when we see it. There are seven common propaganda devices: Name Calling Glittering Generalities Transfer Testimonial Plain Folks Card Stacking Band Wagon 20140430 http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/310958 Panicking US government targeting alternative media http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/04/30/360664/us-govt-targeting-alternative-media/ 20150514 http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/media/news.php?q=1431530625 TWO MAJOR PSY OPS DOCUMENTS YOU MUST READ 20150722 http://investmentresearchdynamics.com/the-price-of-gold-gets-curiouser-and-curiouser/ The Price Of Gold Gets Curiouser And Curiouser! "Edward Bernays was Sigmund Freud’s nephew. He believed that the population had to be manipulated in a democracy to keep order. As I mentioned yesterday, Bernays was instrumental in getting women to smoke for his cigarette company client and to get the American people to support a CIA overthrow of a Guatemalan government that was uncooperative with United Fruit Company. Bernays uses the lowest instincts of humans and appeals to those “animal spirits” over their better judgement to influence mass viewpoints.” This summary of the roots of modern U.S. propaganda techniques was sent to me by Jay Taylor, of http://www.miningstocks.com/ Josef Goebbels implemented Bernays’ theories and techniques in crafting the infamous Nazi Germany propaganda machine. As Naom Chomsky chronicles in his preface to Bernays’ book, “Propaganda,” the U.S. Government and U.S. corporations hired Bernays in late 1920’s in order to utilize his techniques on the American public. The rest, as they say, is history…anyone remember 9/11? 20151209 http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/12/the-linguistics-of-youtube-voice/418962/?single_page=true The Linguistics of 'YouTube Voice' The attention-grabbing tricks that keep an audience watching, even when people are just talking at a camera 20151227 "All this was inspired by the principle -- which is quite true in itself -- that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying. These people know only too well how to use falsehood for the basest purposes..." -- Hitler Mein Kampf 20151229 http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-12-28/political-correctness-about-control-not-etiquette "Political Correctness" Is About Control, Not Etiquette Submitted by Jeff Deist via The Mises Institute, 12/28/2015 20160404 http://www.wakingtimes.com/2016/03/31/top-20-doublespeak-terms-to-listen-for-in-modern-propaganda/ Top 20 Doublespeak Terms to Listen for in Modern Propaganda Doublespeak is a language that is alive and well in our world today. Doublespeak can refer to terms that are euphemisms (mild expressions designed to hide harsher or more direct ones), deliberately ambiguous (expressions designed to hide the truth) or actual inversions (outright lies which state the opposite of the truth). Although he never used the term doublespeak in his book 1984, many associate doublespeak with George Orwell. After all, it was Orwell who famously wrote that the motto of the totalitarian ruling party in 1984 was “War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength” – an example of an inversion. Orwell did however use the term newspeak to refer to a new kind of language which drastically reduced the scope of available words and terms, so as to concurrently reduce the scope of possible free thought among the ruled population. 20180508 http://www.sunray22b.net/words_as_propaganda_tools.htm Words as Propaganda Tools 20191213 https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/nonlinear-warfare-a-new-system-of-political-control-adam-curtis-2015-the-goal-is-to-undermine-peoples-perception-of-the-world-so-they-never-know-what-is-really-happening/ Nonlinear warfare: A new system of political control [Adam Curtis] 2015 “The goal is to undermine people’s perception of the world so they never know what is really happening.” December 11, 2019 by IWB by Yaakov117 Short video explains how politicians and media use “non linear” warfare to confuse the public. They propagate countless stories, many that conflict each other, making it impossible for the public to know what is real and what is true. Through this brand of psychological warfare the public is rendered helpless in creating change because they cannot pinpoint who the enemy is and what exactly is the problem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ggr8zTJsvZA&feature=emb_logo Nonlinear warfare: A new system of political control [Adam Curtis] 2015 20210207 http://thesaker.is/bernays-and-propaganda/ Bernays and Propaganda