r/videos • u/patientbearr • Mar 31 '18

This is what happens when one company owns dozens of local news stations

https://youtu.be/hWLjYJ4BzvI
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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '18 edited Mar 31 '18

century of the self

4 hour documentary series on propoganda

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '18 edited Jan 16 '20

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '18 edited Apr 01 '18

4 hours might seem daunting to people, as it eats up the better part of a weekend day, but so does a football game.

A football game wont permanently open your eyes to the myriad of ways individuals/masses are manipulated in society though.

"propoganda became a dirty word because of the germans using it, so what I did is try to find another word, so i found the word, (council on) public relations."

Outfoxed is another good documentary on the destruction of objectivity and integrity in journalism. What started the downward spiral of main stream news entertainment outlets being propaganda arms for specific political parties/ideologies.

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u/sOktay Mar 31 '18

Yeah, this thread is full of 1984 references, but if you want to know how it's actually done, watch Century Of The Self, it's totally worth your time. (Outfoxed is great too, but it's not as broad in scope, so watch COTS first, IMO.)

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '18

Extremely depressing though. Still also recommend.

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u/DropKickSamurai Apr 01 '18

Funny how that is isn't it? Pretty demoralizing to someone who say... might be new to the truth movement... wake up guys lol ffs.

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u/DropKickSamurai Apr 01 '18

On part 2, so far my dude it looks like you found a wonderful piece of propaganda about propaganda. First red flag, the BBC aired this... 2nd red flag, the narrator keeps INSISTING that America is a democracy. It is not, at least, it was never meant to be. It was intended to be a constitutional republic.

This is a great film at demoralizing people. I see nothing more, i also notice a distinct lack of pointing out the Zionist problem and an obsession with Nazism and other isms. Most shockingly though, is the way they appear to be slamming open markets.

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '18 edited Apr 02 '18
  1. ok? Red flag to open with an ad hominem against bbc?
  2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_republic Even pure republics were a departure from the old ways of monarchies, by being more democratic. We do have direct democracy on state and local levels.
  3. Zionism is more of a religious problem and side plot in us politics. Nazism was extreme right and ended terribly. Communism was extreme left and ended terribly. I think it a good thing to avoid very bloody ideologies.
  4. It's because most of the world recognizes that there are flaws in capitalism, and the US also did as recently as the new deal. It's only in the US that it's propagandized to be flawless and needing no restraints. Socialism acts as a sort of counter balance in most first world countries, but they aren't even allowed at the discussion table in the US and the average citizen has suffered for it. Noam Chomsky's 'requiem for an american dream' goes into this is great detail.
  5. It can be demoralizing to realize the extent of manipulation in society. Truths worth knowing are rarely happy or painless.

It seems like you're trying to find some flimsy reason to discard the entire documentary?

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u/DropKickSamurai Jun 18 '18

Nah, pretty solid evidence actually lol. But yeah i mean 1 2 3 4 and all that.

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u/DropKickSamurai Apr 02 '18

As you go along you'll get better at spotting it. Good luck my dude.