HOW THE MEDIA WORKS !

 

The article linked below may be the most important post on the internet in the last year. 

 Very worthwhile, and should be read and circulated by everyone who gets this message..

James Perloff: A Century of Mainstream Media Lies

Newspapers were the first vehicle that mainstream media (MSM) used to manipulate Americans into war. The Spanish-American War (1898) was fought over Cuba, which had been a colony of Spain since 1511. By the 19th century, Cuba had become the world’s wealthiest colony and largest sugar producer, and its assets were coveted by the Illuminist cabal, which also wanted Spain neutered as a world power. National City Bank, then America’s preeminent bank, controlled the McKinley White House, loaned the government $200 million to fight the war, and took control of Cuba’s sugar industry afterwards (see Ferdinand Lundberg’s classic 1937 book, America’s Sixty Families).

To get young men to fight and die in Cuba for the banksters, it was necessary to persuade Americans – for the first time – that the U.S. military’s duty was not only self-defense, but “righting wrongs” overseas. It was before and during this war that the media honed a skill that would prove perennially useful: manufacturing fake atrocity stories.

The “Yellow Press,” as it was then appropriately called, was spearheaded by William Randolph Hearst’s New York Journal and Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World. Together they fabricated outlandish atrocity tales about Cuba, such as Spaniards roasting Catholic priests. On October 6, 1896, Hearst’s Journal carried this headline: “CUBANS FED TO SHARKS. Cries Heard at Night – They are Taken Outside the Harbor, and the Silent Ferryman Comes Back Alone.” Pulitzer’s World raved: “RAIDED A HOSPITAL– More than Forty Sick and Wounded Cubans Butchered.” But no hospital even existed in the region the World described.

Hearst’s reporters rarely ventured outside Havana’s bars. Some never even traveled beyond Florida, where they forwarded tales spun by Cuban émigrés. And some stories Hearst invented himself in New York.

I've read James Perloff's classic tome "The Shadows of Power: The Council on Foreign Relations and the American Decline."  It's right up there with G. Edward Griffin's "The Creature From Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve"---and if you haven't read these two books, it's not too late to correct that oversight.  And, like the Paul Craig Roberts piece posted above, this falls into the absolute must read category as well.  I thank South African reader B.V. for sending it our way last Sunday, but for content reasons, it had to wait for today.

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10 Signs The Global Elite Are Losing Control

SEPTEMBER8, 2013

 

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3. No confidence in media: The most recent polls show that 77% of the population no longer trusts corporate TV news. Is it any wonder why the establishment media failed to sell the lies about the alleged Syria chemical event?  With all their monopoly might over the airwaves, they can no longer claim that black is white simply because officialdom says so.

http://www.activistpost.com/2013/09/10-signs-global-elite-are-losing-control.html

 

 

 

 

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77% Do Not Trust Television News

Activist Post

The annual Gallup survey revealing confidence in institutions made news earlier this week for a record low score of 10% for Congress. But another figure is noteworthy in the study: only 23% of those polled said they had a "great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in Television News.

One would think that 77% lacking trust in television news is a staggering number. Yet it is actually an improvement over last year's results of 79% (or 21% with confidence).

 

If the new low for Congress has something to do with recent political scandals, perhaps the media's coverage of those scandals has given them a slight boost.  However, other polls show trust in media to be even worse.

Another survey from earlier this year by Rasmussen concluded that only 6% rate news media as "very trustworthy" with twice as many (12%) who believe the news is "Not At All Trustworthy".

These surveys seem to contribute to the increasing trend of people turning to the Internet for their news. Pew Research's State of the Media study for 2013 showed that online news is the only growing sector in the news industry.

Although it's difficult to prove that getting news from the Internet translates into an increase in alternative views, some indications are that this is the case.

A survey conducted last month in Australia showed that 50% of Australians who oppose vaccination got their information from the Internet, while only 17% of people who support vaccination got their information online.

This would seem to suggest that when people are exposed to alternative information and more in-depth reporting they will change their views. 

 

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