The Inner Secrets of the Right Wing Echo Chamber

[a kennedy]

Brave New Films has provided, with Bernie Sanders, a clear deconstruction of the origins and process of the conservative disinformation propaganda machine. It's scary.

If you have been paying attention to television, radio, newspapers, the Internet, various talk shows, including the batch on Sunday morning, you have heard two words repeated a lot; so often that there is actually the sound of an echo. Word one is collapse ... collapse ... collapse; word two is bankrupt... bankrupt ... bankrupt. Can you guess why these words are repeated over and over (and no, this is not about the Greek economy)?

Rather, these words are being used and reused to describe the persistent disinformation that, if successful, will impact millions of people, probably even you, who are reading this. Did you guess right? The first message is: "We must raise the retirement age or the economy will collapse." And two: "Social security is bankrupt."

These two statements have been repeated thousands of times in and on American media. Yet there is not one scintilla of evidence that either one of these statements is accurate. But they have lodged themselves into the mainstream of American thought, constantly repeated by corporate media, as if they are obvious truths.

http://www.alternet.org/story/151378/the_inner_secrets_of_the_right_wing_echo_chamber/

[Historic NY]

1. Same way they slung liberal around over & over....lessons of Joseph Goebbels.

6. To be perceived, propaganda must evoke the interest of an audience and must be transmitted through an attention-getting communications medium.


12. Propaganda may be facilitated by leaders with prestige.

13. Propaganda must be carefully timed.
a. The communication must reach the audience ahead of competing propaganda.

b. A propaganda campaign must begin at the optimum moment

c. A propaganda theme must be repeated, but not beyond some point of diminishing effectiveness

14. Propaganda must label events and people with distinctive phrases or slogans.
a. They must evoke desired responses which the audience previously possesses

b. They must be capable of being easily learned

c. They must be utilized again and again, but only in appropriate situations

d. They must be boomerang-proof

http://www.psywarrior.com/Goebbels.html

[butterfly77]

2. Kent Conrad,Jon Tester..

Heath Schuler,etc..Where in the hell are the Democrats?There are none in the so called gang of six.

[mmonk]

3. A billion for your thoughts.