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Related: About this forumPropaganda and Manipulation: How mass media engineers and distorts our perceptions
Found this on Youtube and thought I would share it...it is 1.16 long but well worth the watch.
Published on Oct 20, 2013
This is a video on the psychology of propaganda. Prof. Kroth reviews five major techniques for how American mass media manipulates and twists the view Americans have of their world. The seriousness of the distortion, and our progressive loss of contact with reality is dramatic. We are increasingly living inside
uhnope
(6,419 posts)Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)zeemike
(18,998 posts)I don't think you understand what a psychologist does...all things like that delusional or not are his line of work.
Did you even watch ether one of those?
swilton
(5,069 posts)The more vehement the attack on the messenger, the greater the validity of the messenger's message.
zeemike
(18,998 posts)And we see it all the time now...so apparently they are worried that we are catching on.
swilton
(5,069 posts)Culture established the horizontal lines differentiating the classes - mass culture reinforces those lines....propaganda is the enabler
Bookmarked for watching with my popcorn!
hedda_foil
(16,373 posts)The fact that someone would attempt to belittle this piece, or Professor Kroft himself, doesn't just ring hollow, it reinforces the point of a superb presentation. I wish everyone would watch it. I plan to watch his other lectures on YouTube, starting with the aliens one, which strikes me as a very good topic for a psych professor.
zeemike
(18,998 posts)And I plan to watch more of what he has to say...he is a rational person without a doubt.