Who here has taken a media studies class? All this dialectic is killing me..

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

@Napoleon

I recall having to read some, if not all of this: http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/bernprop.html

i got put on bernays by adam curtis' BBC documentaries

 

[Serious]

It's the kind of thing where Id recommend everyone at least take an introductory class...

I kinda wish I did in college, but I did force myself to read this book on mass communications as I was watching the Ferguson situation unfold.

It was clear that was being reported on CNN, surely wasn't what me and @krackdagawd were watching unfold on live stream.


Man I was shocked at how blatantly honest the book was about manipulation, racism stereotypes, and the role profit...Essentially what I took away from the book is everything is about accumulating more profit...

I'm at all the information I've read up on but I'm looking for some more legit sources to read from and gain more useful knowledge on how to.navigate through information in a 24 hour news cycle....

 

[krackdagawd]

It was clear that was being reported on CNN, surely wasn't what me and @krackdagawd were watching unfold on live stream.

shyt was infuriating

Thanks for the tag, you just reminded me to cop J. Cole's album, dude randomly popped up in the stream protesting with the people.

 

[Serious]

News is a commodity, and the best salesman will yield the highest profit margins. I don't know of any major outlet, whether for-profit or non-profit, that doesn't have a bias or self-serving agenda.

Whether it be Ferguson, or any other headline-grabbing event, all the outlets do is pander and fear-monger their audience.

I personally try to read from far right all the way to the far left(with some really obscure alternative shyt mixed in). However, before reading anything from a news source, I first learn about that source's history and try to determine their bias. Once establishing the agenda of the outlet presenting me the news, I then try to only take away the facts and try to understand why it was spun from the angle in which it was presented. You do this for all the big stories and you can frame a much clearer and concise picture of what the real news might actually be.

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Some of my favorite obscure theories at the moment (I don't necessarily believe these, but they are most fun to think critically about):

- Edward Snowden might be a "manufactured avatar" by the State. It's impressive how he stays on talking points and enunciates (it's like watching a pro athlete give a post-game talk or an actor giving an interview). Most programmers I work with tend to be a little socially-awkward and soft-spoken. Additionally his honorable military discharge, him stating he was at one point working directly for the CIA, does not match the description of a "tech-activist/freedom-fighter". Most other programmers I work with tend to be Libertarian-leaning. And Why not just upload every document to pastebin? Some even claim Glenn Greenweld's relationship with Pierre Omidyar is a conflict of interest.

Why would they be doing this? Well diving into that requires one to go deep into the CIA's history (Mockingbird, PsyOps, etc). If it was them, they were able to control the complete narrative of story with a good vs evil scenario. Either you think he's a traitor and become even more patriotic or else you declare him a hero. All the while the real story, the real facts, fade from importance and the media capitalizes on the polarization of the people.

- Alex Jones, David Icke and the like are all disinfo agents sponsored by our black budget.

- CIA involvement in the media for the last 60+ years.

- Will Google really become SkyNet (http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/dec/17/google-boston-dynamics-robots-atlas-bigdog-cheetah, https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000022008&year=2013, http://www.google.com/killer-robots.txt)

@DEAD7 @thekingsmen might want to peep the second paragraph...



interesting prospective.

Yeah that's pretty much what I do to certain degree.

 

[ThaRealness]

I kinda wish I did in college, but I did force myself to read this book on mass communications as I was watching the Ferguson situation unfold.

It was clear that was being reported on CNN, surely wasn't what me and @krackdagawd were watching unfold on live stream.


Man I was shocked at how blatantly honest the book was about manipulation, racism and stereotypes.

I'm still but I'm looking for some more legit sources to read from and gain more useful knowledge on how to.navigate through information in a 24 hour news cycle....

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...=P8JjRjnCaVde5TfDgHkZ7Q&bvm=bv.82001339,d.aWw
Check out "under western eyes" if you wanna understand the psychology behind stereotypes.
Other chapters in that book might be cool too

 

[Serious]

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCAQFjAA&url=http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kevin_Robins2/publication/31720458_Spaces_of_Identity__Global_Media_Electronic_Landscapes_and_Cultural_Boundaries__D._Morley_K._Robins/links/02e7e51568083d9273000000&ei=F6eTVJrgCM32yQSC6oGwAw&usg=AFQjCNH1QL35KuPR8rYlfETrcRLfuhd2wQ&sig2=P8JjRjnCaVde5TfDgHkZ7Q&bvm=bv.82001339,d.aWw
Check out "under western eyes" if you wanna understand the psychology behind stereotypes.
Other chapters in that book might be cool too

+rep


Thanks breh. I wish I could type out more, but. I'm on my phone at the moment. But I'll peep this right quick...

 

[thekingsmen]

@DEAD7 @thekingsmen might want to peep the second paragraph...



interesting prospective.

Yeah that's pretty much what I do to certain degree.

That was sarcasm. Alex Jones is paid by someone else but is a disinfo agent. If those individuals were on the payroll wouldn't you automatically assume that the news company itself isn't credible? Why would a news company pay people to put out disinfo when it already does so?

 

[thekingsmen]

@DEAD7 @thekingsmen might want to peep the second paragraph...



interesting prospective.

Yeah that's pretty much what I do to certain degree.

These news companies are a joke.

 

[Jatt]

 

[Bawon Samedi]

I'm almost about done with my two year degree.

 

[ThaRealness]

I still say fukk that shyt

 

[Bawon Samedi]

I still say fukk that shyt

Good for you.

 

[tru_m.a.c]

I kinda wish I did in college, but I did force myself to read this book on mass communications as I was watching the Ferguson situation unfold.

It was clear that was being reported on CNN, surely wasn't what me and @krackdagawd were watching unfold on live stream.


Man I was shocked at how blatantly honest the book was about manipulation, racism stereotypes, and the role profit...Essentially what I took away from the book is everything is about accumulating more profit...

I'm at all the information I've read up on but I'm looking for some more legit sources to read from and gain more useful knowledge on how to.navigate through information in a 24 hour news cycle....

title?

 

[USSInsiders]

About PR specifically? I don't really recall what the required readings were, but the main concepts that were regurgitated semester after semester were:

- Perfecting AP writing. Teachers stressed that an entry-level PR job requires writing numerous press releases (aka the grunt work). The success of your press releases are determined by how little the attributed journalist would edit your words. The more control you have of the narrative and words; the more you're able to control the public's perception.
- Media Gatekeeping
- Everything can be spun.
- Some absurd number like 90% of all news articles and video releases are created by the reported-on organization's PR department.
- Pepsi syringe scandal and Johnson & Johnson's Tylenol recall are both amazing examples of Crisis Management and media spinning.
- Crisis Management and their appropriate responses: accepting fault, apologizing, deflecting, blaming, etc.
- KFC in Asia(maybe China specifically, I forget) as an example of a PR disaster.
- Try to find the right meaningless words that will invoke emotions ("Yes We Can", "Support Our Troops", "Just Do It")
- Edward Bernays
- How it's impossible to determine the quantitative impact of PR to an organization's bottom line.

@Serious Engineering Consent by the GOAT Eddy bernays great book. I've done some PR classes/media studies and those were fascinating but for the most part a lot of media studies shyt is mundane and boring as fukk, then again that's most of college courses.

 

[Vandelay]

I majored in Broadcasting, telecommunications, and mass media, so I had a fair amount of media studies classes.

One of my introductory media studies classes; Baudriard, Marshall McCluen, and the like, I thought I understood the content pretty well but ended up getting a D in it. The teacher was a jackass so maybe somewhere in the middle lies the truth.

I actually found the curriculum pretty interesting albeit unuseful for the most part in my career.