The media, journalism, and propaganda
Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2018 4:17 am
Time for a thread about journalism, and propaganda techniques used by both the mainstream media, and alternative media.
I used to study journalism at the best institution for journalists in Norway, so I did pick up quite a bit, before realizing the media is dying, and switching to engineering.
First, let's address the images used. And it's way more effective at swaying public opinion than most people know. You can write a pretty balanced and fair article, but still be extremely biased as a whole, by simply using unflattering pictures of the candidate you oppose, while using pretty pictures of the candidate you support.
Pretty much mainstream media used images of Trump looking like a madman, while Clinton looked pretty normal. Then I looked into the alternative right wing media, and how they portrayed Clinton versus Trump. Now she looked like the crazy person, while Trump looked pretty normal.
This went on for the entire campaign, and it hasn't really been mentioned in the media. It's the easiest way to sway opinion, without being subject to criticism, but it's also the easiest way to recognize a bias within the media.
Every news outlet have access to all kinds of images. They could've been neutral, picked neutral pictures of both participants, and try to be as objective as possible. But they didn't. And if you're constantly being bombarded with images of a person looking crazy, you will start to believe he/she is. If you're not aware of how the media actually pick those images out of a pool of all kinds of images. It's an extremely efficient way of getting subconscious support. Most people don't read a lot. At most they read headlines. But everyone looks at images when they skim through a page. And that's why it's so efficient. Especially if you can bombard them with images continuously.
This ties in with the new EU regulation coming, regarding copyright. If only the mainstream media has access to, and can use copyrighted images freely on the internet, they can suppress dissent. The easy trick of going subconscious has been taken away from the opposition, but is still being used by the "trustworthy news agencies".
I used to study journalism at the best institution for journalists in Norway, so I did pick up quite a bit, before realizing the media is dying, and switching to engineering.
First, let's address the images used. And it's way more effective at swaying public opinion than most people know. You can write a pretty balanced and fair article, but still be extremely biased as a whole, by simply using unflattering pictures of the candidate you oppose, while using pretty pictures of the candidate you support.
Pretty much mainstream media used images of Trump looking like a madman, while Clinton looked pretty normal. Then I looked into the alternative right wing media, and how they portrayed Clinton versus Trump. Now she looked like the crazy person, while Trump looked pretty normal.
This went on for the entire campaign, and it hasn't really been mentioned in the media. It's the easiest way to sway opinion, without being subject to criticism, but it's also the easiest way to recognize a bias within the media.
Every news outlet have access to all kinds of images. They could've been neutral, picked neutral pictures of both participants, and try to be as objective as possible. But they didn't. And if you're constantly being bombarded with images of a person looking crazy, you will start to believe he/she is. If you're not aware of how the media actually pick those images out of a pool of all kinds of images. It's an extremely efficient way of getting subconscious support. Most people don't read a lot. At most they read headlines. But everyone looks at images when they skim through a page. And that's why it's so efficient. Especially if you can bombard them with images continuously.
This ties in with the new EU regulation coming, regarding copyright. If only the mainstream media has access to, and can use copyrighted images freely on the internet, they can suppress dissent. The easy trick of going subconscious has been taken away from the opposition, but is still being used by the "trustworthy news agencies".
