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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Interview: Ex KGB agent Yuri Bezmenov on psychological warfare and ideological subversion (1984)

Yuri Alexandrovich Bezmenov (1939 – 1993) aka Tomas David Schuman was a KGB operative who defected to Canada. Yuri Bezmenov fled the KGB and the Soviet Union in the 1970s when he realised where communism was taking the people’s way of life in that country. Before defecting to Canada, Bezmenov

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On The Psychology Of The Conspiracy Denier

A closer look at the class that mocks. This is article is has originally been published by Tim Foyle on https://off-guardian.org/2021/03/12/on-the-psychology-of-the-conspiracy-denier. You can support his work on Substack on https://reportingforbeauty.substack.com Why is it that otherwise perfectly intelligent, thoughtful and rationally minded people baulk at the suggestion that sociopaths are conspiring

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