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zeemike

(18,998 posts)
Thu Jan 8, 2015, 02:18 PM Jan 2015

Propaganda and Manipulation: How mass media engineers and distorts our perceptions

Found this on Youtube and thought I would share it...it is 1.16 long but well worth the watch.

Published on Oct 20, 2013


This is a video on the psychology of propaganda. Prof. Kroth reviews five major techniques for how American mass media manipulates and twists the view Americans have of their world. The seriousness of the distortion, and our progressive loss of contact with reality is dramatic. We are increasingly living inside

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Propaganda and Manipulation: How mass media engineers and distorts our perceptions (Original Post) zeemike Jan 2015 OP
more from the same professor: Aliens from outer space shaped human history!!! uhnope Jan 2015 #1
That is not the theme of the video. It is theory. One that spawned a religion in Utah. Fred Sanders Jan 2015 #2
And so you think that makes what he said bullshit then? zeemike Jan 2015 #3
'Swilton's Law' swilton Jan 2015 #5
Makes sense to me. zeemike Jan 2015 #6
Gellner on Nationalism swilton Jan 2015 #4
This is a spectacularly good lecture by an inspiring professor. hedda_foil Jan 2015 #7
That was my reaction too. zeemike Jan 2015 #8
K&R DeSwiss Jan 2015 #9

zeemike

(18,998 posts)
3. And so you think that makes what he said bullshit then?
Thu Jan 8, 2015, 03:25 PM
Jan 2015

I don't think you understand what a psychologist does...all things like that delusional or not are his line of work.
Did you even watch ether one of those?

 

swilton

(5,069 posts)
5. 'Swilton's Law'
Thu Jan 8, 2015, 04:13 PM
Jan 2015

The more vehement the attack on the messenger, the greater the validity of the messenger's message.

zeemike

(18,998 posts)
6. Makes sense to me.
Thu Jan 8, 2015, 04:48 PM
Jan 2015

And we see it all the time now...so apparently they are worried that we are catching on.

 

swilton

(5,069 posts)
4. Gellner on Nationalism
Thu Jan 8, 2015, 04:06 PM
Jan 2015

Culture established the horizontal lines differentiating the classes - mass culture reinforces those lines....propaganda is the enabler

Bookmarked for watching with my popcorn!

hedda_foil

(16,368 posts)
7. This is a spectacularly good lecture by an inspiring professor.
Thu Jan 8, 2015, 05:52 PM
Jan 2015

The fact that someone would attempt to belittle this piece, or Professor Kroft himself, doesn't just ring hollow, it reinforces the point of a superb presentation. I wish everyone would watch it. I plan to watch his other lectures on YouTube, starting with the aliens one, which strikes me as a very good topic for a psych professor.

zeemike

(18,998 posts)
8. That was my reaction too.
Thu Jan 8, 2015, 06:35 PM
Jan 2015

And I plan to watch more of what he has to say...he is a rational person without a doubt.

 

DeSwiss

(27,137 posts)
9. K&R
Thu Jan 8, 2015, 07:23 PM
Jan 2015
''The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.'' ~George Orwell, 1984
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