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

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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

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