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In reply to the discussion: Call me jaded. I see propaganda all over the place. Our media is pathetic. [View all]hifiguy
(33,688 posts)59. The purpose of the corporate propaganda
and that is all any media, but most especially the "news" is, is to control and manipulate the low-information/dumb as a box of rocks mass of sheeple and get them to march into the slaughterhouse (which their masters have told them doesn't even exist) and be processed accordingly.
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Call me jaded. I see propaganda all over the place. Our media is pathetic. [View all]
madfloridian
Dec 2015
OP
and if the media empires have their way, even the non-US media will become "exceptional"
erronis
Dec 2015
#44
Nobody affluent makes mounds of money from peace. I always assume that reporting on disasters,
GoneFishin
Dec 2015
#3
"... a minuscule number of narcissistic hedonists, most of whom fit the profile of psychopathy..."
Ghost Dog
Dec 2015
#52
"Propaganda can influence people to believe a certain ideology whether that ideology is right or
in_cog_ni_to
Dec 2015
#8
The TVs in offices and stores and doctors' offices in 2003 were all set to Fox.
madfloridian
Dec 2015
#61
Not watching any mainstream media is the best possible thing you can do for yourself.
SheilaT
Dec 2015
#19
"The largest contingent was affiliated with Fox News, followed by NBC and CNN"
madfloridian
Dec 2015
#30
Remember when Scott McClelland's conscience got to him. He spoke out about Bush's war.
madfloridian
Dec 2015
#36
I have a hard enough trouble swallowing my food let alone huge-ass whoppers like these. Thanks
Dont call me Shirley
Dec 2015
#56