“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. …We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society. …In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons…who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.” – Edward Bernays – Propaganda (1928) pp. 9–10
Have there been “improvements” in the field of propaganda from what Bernays knew in 1928? Probably not unlike Orville and Wilbur’s flight at Kitty Hawk to a NASA Mars exploration.
Yes but this is not a vast conspiracy to control the minds of the masses. They people all just got the same script from (((headquarters))). Purely coincidental that they all said the same exact thing in exactly the same way.
Good morning and Happy Easter All,
This video shared by PJW is making it’s way around the webz this morning.
Here is what I found out so far on the video.
The one he linked , has a link to the original which is here:
The title is “Sinclair’s script for stations” which references the Sinclair Group
Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. is one of the largest and most diversified television broadcasting companies in the country. Sinclair owns and operates, programs or provides sales services to more television stations than anyone and has affiliations with all the major networks. In addition, Sinclair is the leading local news provider in the country, as well as a producer of sports content. Sinclair owns a multicast network, four radio stations and a cable network. Sinclair’s broadcast content is delivered via multiple-platforms, including over-the-air, multi-channel video program distributors, and digital platforms. Sinclair, either directly or through its venture subsidiaries, makes equity investments in strategic companies. Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. was founded in 1986, went public in 1995 and is traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the ticker symbol SBGI.
So they own and control a lot of “local” news stations.
On the side bar of the original video I found this link to PBS… ( yes I know it’s the enemy as well) but watch it and how they describe Sinclair.
It’s interesting to see how much our media is being used to control what we “think”
Thanks, I didn’t know anywhere in America was getting any Truth; Lordy, I wish Sinclair owned a channel in Tallahassee!!!! (but the Communist would never tolerate that!!). If you leave California to escape God’s Judgement, DO NOT COME TO TALLAHASSEE, LEON OR GADSDEN COUNTIES!! (Jefferson, Liberty & Wakulla Counties have Tallahassee TV and radio but are otherwise Respectable).
It wasn’t that Hitler was wrong about everything but that he solved problems with a hammer.
“When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful and discourages what is useful, applauds falsehood and smothers truth under indifference or insult, a nation turns it’s back on progress and can be restored only by the terrible lessons of catastrophe.”
-Bastiat
It may be dangerous to our democracy; but it is great for the Republic.
The so-called “fake news”, actually some truth, that is provided on social media “is extremely dangerous to our democracy”. I guess they are referring to the corporate-controlled oligarchies posing as democracies of the people in the West. Of course, most of the fake news originates from the Main Stream Media; in fact, that is what they are for…to keep the people in the dark while they are controlled and plundered by treasonous oligarchs. Hang ’em high.
Such hard working journalists!
Isn’t it great we live in a country where intrepid J-school graduates dig for truth . I feel so much better that they battling on the front lines to protect us . Thank God that the 4th estate was sent from heaven.
“A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude. To make them love it is the task assigned, in present-day totalitarian states, to ministries of propaganda, newspaper editors, and school teachers. Such propagandists accomplish their greatest triumphs, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have done by the most eloquent denunciations, the most compelling of logical rebuttals.”
Aldous Huxley – 1946 revised foreword to Brave New World
The same year that “Propaganda” was published, Edward Bernays was hired as an assistant by CBS founder William S. Paley, member of the Rockefeller CFR. As CBS moved from radio to television, the “nightly news” was delivered to the masses by CFR members Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite (“the most trusted man in America”), and Dan Rather. For 70 years, the CFR has sponsored the “Edward R. Murrow Press Fellowship”. See lists in the CFR annual report.
After WW2, Allen Dulles, a Rockefeller lawyer and founding director of the CFR, ran the CIA “Operation Mockingbird” to coordinate the major media outlets:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_mockingbird
Here’s a handy chart showing some of the current CFR media connections:
https://swisspropaganda.wordpress.com/the-american-empire-and-its-media/
See the current lists of sponsors, directors and members in the CFR annual report starting on pg 36:
https://www.cfr.org/sites/default/files/report_pdf/AR2016_web.pdf
PDF download for the book “Propaganda”:
https://www.pdf-archive.com/2017/01/17/edward-bernays-propaganda-1928/
Note to Admin:
I was gone this afternoon and got back a little while ago. I submitted a post about the PJW video and just noticed this post on the same topic. I should have read all the articles here first. No need to post mine.
Edit: I just deleted it. This morning when I saw this post, my adblocker didn’t show PJW’s embedded tweet video- so – at a casual glance – I only caught the Bernay’s quote.
Given that today is April Fool’s – PJW’s tweeting of the Sinclair video was very timely.
Kind of like the treats we took to a potluck today (get it?):
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I’ve seen several other instances like this before, when all of a sudden all of the news stations are “on message” and are uniting to drive home a point.
People think its a conspiracy, they really don’t understand just how few people are at the top of our social pyramid.