Total Media Blackout

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1KIKI

Monday, July 9, 2012 5:04 PM

I belong to an email group whose sole purpose is to mutually inform each other about these things.

But even when one gets privately informed, I admit I look around at the results of the vast MASS media on the larger world around me, and I wilt. How does knowledge even gain a whisper in that place? And even then, I think, it's not even about information. As we've seen, there are many people for whom information is fertilizer for their ever-increasing delusions.

And I think btw it's not just the 'news'. It's the wall of tv shows, radio shows, newspapers and ads - all massaging us into a cocooned anesthetized state of unreality.

SignyM: I swear, if we really knew what was being decided about us in our absence, and how hosed the government is prepared to let us be, we would string them up.

NIKI2

Monday, July 9, 2012 6:11 PM

Yup to all of what's been written, too. Sig:

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Right now, it seems to me "the news" is almost totally synthetic... take 30 parts of sports.... 10 parts of weather...30 parts pablum... 20 parts of shock-value and 10 parts feel-good ... mix well and shove through the mouths of one serious-looking babe, one serious-looking old dude, and one goofy weatherperson. Use advertizing as a lubricant.

Honestly, if the real news were actually reported, our government would collapse in a year and the corporations would follow shortly afterwards. The media is here to anesthetize us.

You forgot the percentage of "celebrity gossip", and I don't think the "feel-good" accounts for as much as 10%, personally. ;o) Byte's right, too:

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They need the fear to be constant, and useful, but only towards the things that don't question the benchmarks of society

Absolutely.

None of this surprises anyone here, but nobody has an answer as to how to change it. I rely mostly on the internet, and check several stories to see if what I've found is worth paying attention to...and even then, it's a conundrum. I don't trust the MSM, but I equally don't trust blogs by people who might have an agenda, or who have swallowed the cool aid because it fits with what they already believe. Makes it tough, if not impossible, to sort out what's real. I DO know that over time I've learned more about what's really going on (especially in America) from friends in other countries...for what that's worth.

BYTEMITE

Monday, July 9, 2012 6:29 PM

I subscribe to the theory that all of these people in power who are so desperate to control everything the public believes and everything the public acts on will eventually lead to their own downfall through simple economics and cause and effect.

Look at Rupert Murdoch. When you become so invested in twisting the news and creating your own worldview/reality, you start stealing information or hacking into private software or systems to find anything to uphold it. Eventually, no matter how powerful you are, you step on the toes of another elite, you piss off the wrong person just a little too much because you're pushing too hard and getting too greedy. Because TPTB aren't necessarily a united group, they're fractions, competitive, sometimes working for the same goal, sometimes at cross purposes, with some very questionable agendas distributed among them.

But apart from the long term view, all of the solutions that could result in more immediate change most people would probably find distasteful, or even immoral.

SIGNYM

Monday, July 9, 2012 6:47 PM

The problem Niki is that you are still looking at the media, when in reality the truly important information seldom makes it that far. I sometimes get the most insight from what is NOT in the news. Of course, that requires an almost PN-ish view of the world (and even conspiracy theorists tend to get misled). I'm not smart enough to notice even "most" of the missing items, I'm lucky if I can capture 0.1% of what's hidden from view. What it takes is a person who has such a thorough understanding of the fundamentals of some topic that the ghafla can't distract.

To be quite honest, most of what is posted here is fluff. Gas prices, stock market, what Obama said, what Romney said, democrats, republicans... the reality is that the military will still get its cut, the banks will still be in the business of making real money on funny-money, climate shift will proceed unchecked, the population will still expand, Fukushima will continue to spew radionculides that will take centuries to eons to decay (and all of northern Japan will be uninhabitable by any reasonable standard), the 0.1% will still be in control, and we will still be talking about shit that doesn't matter.

1KIKI

Monday, July 9, 2012 7:23 PM

Well, you've outlined some of the big things, I think. Maybe we just need to keep them in mind as we watch the news, to sieve out the pointless tap-dancing.

SignyM: I swear, if we really knew what was being decided about us in our absence, and how hosed the government is prepared to let us be, we would string them up.

FREMDFIRMA

Monday, July 9, 2012 7:59 PM

I felt this was ever so appropriate to the discussion.

Only, yanno, Norsefire was a lot better at it.
*eyeroll*

-F

CANTTAKESKY

Monday, July 9, 2012 10:02 PM

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Originally posted by FREMDFIRMA:
That's why I am so rabid about keeping the Internet free - it really is the last bastion, and the only antidote available to the poisonous propaganda,

I have a friend who worked in broadcasting for a while. She wanted to do stories on the genocide in Rwanda at the time. Her boss killed the story in favor of a story about how a piece of toast looked like the virgin Mary. Disgusted, she left the field.

Kind of how all the good cops don't stay either.

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So many gods, so many creeds,
So many paths that wind and wind,
While just the art of being kind
is all the sad world needs.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox, poet (1850-1919)

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