A scene from the 1976 movie ‘The Network‘ tells us how the world is actually constructed and according to which rules it functions. Nations, governments, state systems and ideologies are nothing more than red herrings. The real powers behind the scenes are forces the majority has never heard of. Media
Category: Media criticism
TED Talk: Astroturf and manipulation of media messages | Sharyl Attkisson
Sharyl Attkisson is an American journalist and television correspondent. In a TED talk (2015), she explains the PR term astroturf. Compare the described media manipulations with the media communication during the global Corona pandemic declared from March 2020. The term astroturf refers – especially in the USA – to political
This is what mind control looks like: Media as hypnosis machines
In recent years, attentive and critical news consumers have not failed to notice that the media are increasingly beaming and re-broadcasting in a disturbing unison. The following video clips seem almost grotesque, documenting that a large part of the broadcasters obviously work with predefined scripts. Editors function merely as talking
The beginning of the end of the media
On 11 September 2001, the decline of the media world began. by Wolf Reiser For a long time now, the German media have been saying goodbye to their fundamental function in our society and have been rid of their raison d’être. Anyone who has been able to follow the work