I see your point, Holly, and I definitely don’t want them to get any clicks/views, but I do believe it’s important to monitor what the propagandists are doing and calling them out on their hypocrisy and lies.
I see your point, Holly, and I definitely don’t want them to get any clicks/views, but I do believe it’s important to monitor what the propagandists are doing and calling them out on their hypocrisy and lies.
But if the propogandists have no listeners, will it matter what they say?
Look at it from their perspective, how best to keep attention coming their way (and ad revenue)? If they were middle of the road, or just slightly to one side, would they get as much attention?
Are some of their extreme statements playing to their critics (and Ad marketing numbers?)
Sometimes we need to assess whether what we are doing is because we feel compelled or we were manipulated into the act.
I appreciate the point you're making, and I think there's a lot of truth to it. People need to see corporate media for what they are, very much like gossip magazine. I would put Fox in that same group, as their reporting changes with who is in the White House. For example, if Trump was in the white house I don't think they would be reporting on the pandemic and vaccine in the way they are now.
The power of corporate television news is not just about how many people watch (viewership is thankfully declining). 1) they help set the narrative in crises, especially at the beginning of a crisis where visual images and repeated narratives are powerful propaganda. This lodges is in people's consciousness and belief systems, and spreads to those who don't watch. 2) CNN and MSNBC are part of all corporate media, which includes the smaller online (previously print media) like USA Today, Time magazine, Newsweek etc. The corporate narrative is repeated through all these corporate outlets. Thank goodness for substack, telegram, bitchute, rumble, signal ect!
I do agree, but unfortunately, the propagandists *do* still have far too many listeners, and exposing them for the perception-management puppeteers they are is what’s helping to turn people away from them. So if we can do that without generating clicks/views for them, that is the ideal.
I see your point, Holly, and I definitely don’t want them to get any clicks/views, but I do believe it’s important to monitor what the propagandists are doing and calling them out on their hypocrisy and lies.
But if the propogandists have no listeners, will it matter what they say?
Look at it from their perspective, how best to keep attention coming their way (and ad revenue)? If they were middle of the road, or just slightly to one side, would they get as much attention?
Are some of their extreme statements playing to their critics (and Ad marketing numbers?)
Sometimes we need to assess whether what we are doing is because we feel compelled or we were manipulated into the act.
I appreciate the point you're making, and I think there's a lot of truth to it. People need to see corporate media for what they are, very much like gossip magazine. I would put Fox in that same group, as their reporting changes with who is in the White House. For example, if Trump was in the white house I don't think they would be reporting on the pandemic and vaccine in the way they are now.
The power of corporate television news is not just about how many people watch (viewership is thankfully declining). 1) they help set the narrative in crises, especially at the beginning of a crisis where visual images and repeated narratives are powerful propaganda. This lodges is in people's consciousness and belief systems, and spreads to those who don't watch. 2) CNN and MSNBC are part of all corporate media, which includes the smaller online (previously print media) like USA Today, Time magazine, Newsweek etc. The corporate narrative is repeated through all these corporate outlets. Thank goodness for substack, telegram, bitchute, rumble, signal ect!
Remember when people confused the barrage of Covid scoreboards sensing cases == deaths. They pushed fear and got it in spades.
I do agree, but unfortunately, the propagandists *do* still have far too many listeners, and exposing them for the perception-management puppeteers they are is what’s helping to turn people away from them. So if we can do that without generating clicks/views for them, that is the ideal.