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If you're interested in learning more about media manipulation, I highly recommend reading the book Trust Me, I'm Lying [1]. It's shocking how easy it is to swa

If you're interested in learning more about media manipulation, I highly recommend reading the book Trust Me, I'm Lying [1]. It's shocking how easy it is to sway public opinion or plant fake stories that could have a national impact. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust_Me,_I%27m_Lying https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust_Me,_I%27m_Lying

malvosenior 7y ago
Also see Manufacturing Consent by Chomsky: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent
- turk73 7y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_of_the_Self https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_of_the_Self Also, Bernays. I guess Goebbels, too.
DyslexicAtheist 7y ago
Influence by Robert Cialdini also comes to mind.
mistermann 7y ago
Also "Truth" by Hector MacDonald. https://books.google.ca/books/about/Truth.html?id=wegtDwAAQBAJ https://books.google.ca/books/about/Truth.html?id=wegtDwAAQB...
elfexec 7y ago
> It's shocking how easy it is to sway public opinion or plant fake stories that could have a national impact. If you want a specific example, just read about Nayirah's testimony. How the Bush government, Kuwaiti diplomats and a well placed PR firm along with collusion by news/media used an outright lie to sway the public into supporting war. Nobody was prosecuted for this, nobody went to jail. If you want a second example, go read about the yellowcake propaganda based on forged documents, by once again a bush government and well placed PR firms along with collusion by news/media to use another outright lie to sway the public into supporting war. Nobody was prosecuted for this, nobody went to jail. As George likes to say "Fool me once..." "The first casualty in war is the truth".
- turk73 7y ago
  Thus, the forged Steele document isn't any big surprise, then? The people behind it are basically the same ones that gave us the Iraq War I & II, a bunch of Deep State frauds who make money for the usual suspects. Now you will next find out that Trump is an honest man fighting the good fight against a bunch of total assholes and that he deserves some latitude.

malvosenior 7y ago

Also see Manufacturing Consent by Chomsky: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent

turk73 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_of_the_Self https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_of_the_Self Also, Bernays. I guess Goebbels, too.

DyslexicAtheist 7y ago

Influence by Robert Cialdini also comes to mind.

mistermann 7y ago

Also "Truth" by Hector MacDonald. https://books.google.ca/books/about/Truth.html?id=wegtDwAAQBAJ https://books.google.ca/books/about/Truth.html?id=wegtDwAAQB...

elfexec 7y ago

> It's shocking how easy it is to sway public opinion or plant fake stories that could have a national impact. If you want a specific example, just read about Nayirah's testimony. How the Bush government, Kuwaiti diplomats and a well placed PR firm along with collusion by news/media used an outright lie to sway the public into supporting war. Nobody was prosecuted for this, nobody went to jail. If you want a second example, go read about the yellowcake propaganda based on forged documents, by once again a bush government and well placed PR firms along with collusion by news/media to use another outright lie to sway the public into supporting war. Nobody was prosecuted for this, nobody went to jail. As George likes to say "Fool me once..." "The first casualty in war is the truth".

turk73 7y ago
Thus, the forged Steele document isn't any big surprise, then? The people behind it are basically the same ones that gave us the Iraq War I & II, a bunch of Deep State frauds who make money for the usual suspects. Now you will next find out that Trump is an honest man fighting the good fight against a bunch of total assholes and that he deserves some latitude.