{"id":14799,"date":"2009-05-07T20:11:48","date_gmt":"2009-05-08T01:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=14799"},"modified":"2009-05-07T22:11:16","modified_gmt":"2009-05-08T03:11:16","slug":"propaganda-model-chomsky-herman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/propaganda-model-chomsky-herman\/","title":{"rendered":"The shape of the shadows"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dear Friend and Reader:<\/em><\/p>\n

Alex Brocklehurst, one of our participants here, mentioned a “propaganda model” a few days ago in response to Fe Bongolan’s article on pig flu, the most recent Fe-911 — and I asked him for a clarification of what that model was. <\/em><\/p>\n

It explains how we live in a corporate culture that actually represents just one dominant view rather than what it is sold as, a diversity of views in a free market of ideas. It will help explain what the corporate state is about. <\/em><\/p>\n

Here is his reply, and here is the Wiki page on Noam Chomsky<\/strong><\/a>. He developed this with someone named Edward Herman. The Propaganda Model has its own Wiki page<\/strong><\/a>. His conslusion reminds me of something my friend and esoteric teacher Arthur Joseph Kushner would say: the shape of the shadows reveals the shape of what’s hidden. <\/em><\/p>\n

Very curious as to your feedback. Alex, this is a fine summary; I can tell because (in part due to being exposed to the subversive Steve Bergstein’<\/strong><\/a>s ideas and reading list for the past 20 years), I recognize all of what you’re talking about. <\/em><\/p>\n

Readers: please read the first sentence a few times. It’s all right in the first few words. — efc<\/em><\/p>\n

Eric,<\/p>\n

The Propaganda Model basically accounts for\u0412\u00a0a system of control far tighter than any Orwellian-visioned one or even practised by totalitarian states. The control is largely invisible, because masquerading as a\u0412\u00a0facet of unrestricted freedom, (namely market forces), the values underpinning which are internalised through pervasive advertising. Of course, the media are central in dissemination and are sponsored by powerful elites who manipulate subliminally to direct from broad strategy to minutiae of details by priming a system that replicates its values by creating ‘reality versions’.<\/p>\n

Business friendly ‘reality versions’ get endorsed while problematic (awareness-fuelled) ones don’t. Herman and Chomsky propose five filters to strain out unwanted modalities\u0412\u00a0within mainstream reporting 1)<\/strong> Media wealth & ownership and the pre-eminence of the corporate values underpinning the modus operandi 2)<\/strong> Advertising as a revenue stream. Publish business friendly stuff – or else (Chomsky himself had to get published through Pluto Press — mainstream would not touch him)\u0412\u00a03) <\/strong>News sourcing that for logistical purposes revolves around sources such as The White House, Pentagon, State Department, Business Corporations and Trade Groups. 4)<\/strong> Flak machines set up to attack unsupportive media. 5) <\/strong>What was anti-communism, designed to mobilise the collective imagination against a common enemy\/threat (The War on Terror since the Berlin Wall collapse).<\/p>\n

These filters inoculate against alternative views and are imbibed en masse, such that this is internalised in the unwitting (who have ‘reality’ engineered for them).<\/p>\n

As a critical perspective, phenomenologically speaking, if you are not party to the facts then discern the true message through what the subtext is.\u0412\u00a0It is possible to piece together a framework of what a real agenda is by noticing how these ‘stories’ are put together (deconstructing the editorial gloss, so to speak).\u0412\u00a0The subliminal content can be teased out via understanding the configurations\/presentations of the ‘reality versions’, in terms of what the overt material trajectories toward.<\/p>\n

A key question to ask is therefore “What message are we SUPPOSED to be receiving here? What is the subtext?” Also, as Fe’s article intimates, phenomenologically, what other pressing issues seem to be presenting\u0412\u00a0around the chosen locus of emphasis? “Why Mexico?” etc “Why birds and animals?” “Why emphasise mutations?”…and so on. Once the salient subtext questions are identified, they can be cross-referenced to build a more complete picture. Yes there is an element of the speculative. Yes, talk of conspiracy and paranoia is commonplace in response.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, most\u0412\u00a0paranoids have arguably been ‘raped’ by power at some point. Such people are vulnerable precisely because they are not powerful enough to gain access to the facts. The powerless scream and cry out in anger and sometimes resort to violence (which the powerful use to ‘moralise’ proof of the victim’s culpability) while the untouchables simply go silent (they don’t need to say anything. Silence is the ultimate tool of abused power in such differentials\u0412\u00a0— you get no accountability). Even without access to the drivers of corporate control we must strive to construct pictures. We may err on detail at times, yet the imperative is binding.<\/p>\n

Hope this is of use.<\/p>\n

Alex<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear Friend and Reader: Alex Brocklehurst, one of our participants here, mentioned a “propaganda model” a few days ago in response to Fe Bongolan’s article on pig flu, the most recent Fe-911 — and I asked him for a clarification of what that model was. It explains how we live in a corporate culture that … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14799"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}