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Media observers will note that snowden has become the story... Very little is being reported on the actual whistle blowing (or gutless treason, if you listen to
by el_fuser 13y ago
Media observers will note that snowden has become the story... Very little is being reported on the actual whistle blowing (or gutless treason, if you listen to the media).
As i watch this massive PR engine start to tear apart Snowden,,,, I'm finding it very hard to post anything critical of the government. It's just a little too easy to flip a binary switch somewhere.
I wonder if this is how it started with those countries we consider repressive?
- dylangs1030 13y agoI studied psychology in school, so I know I read this but sorry for not being able to cite it: If you tell someone the same message over and over, they begin to believe it. I don't mean that in a cliche way, I mean literally and clinically. IIRC, the average you had to pad a message was 60 repetitions before it "sunk in" to someone. If anyone has a citation or the study, please, supplement this comment :) I'm not being so brazen as to say the media intends this effect. But I think humans know it exists on some level and have always exploited it.