Armed Polite Society
Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: roo_ster on February 18, 2009, 01:15:28 AM
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The topic of the author's post is disinformation, not global warming. GW just happens to be the particular topic about which the disinformation is being produced.
He examines three articles about a particular topic (arctic sea ice) and examines them from a disinformation/agitprop perspective.
Most times, this sort of thing just washes off me & my consciousness as water off a duck. I've seen so many examples of agitprop that it is hardly worthy of notice. Thing is, most folks haven't read as voraciously as I have in the past and have not developed the propaganda detector necessary to safely navigate the MSM without collecting disinformation stowaways.
IOW, we really ought to make more noise about this sort of foul marketing of dishonesty and agitprop.
I can not do this guy justice with excerpts and will only excerpt the introduction. To understand the whys & wherefores, clicking through tot he original article is required.
http://fabiusmaximus.wordpress.com/2009/02/18/disinformation/
The media doing what it does best these days, feeding us disinformation
At some point during the 1970’s the mainstream media decided to abandon journalism to become the Ministry of Truth. Advocacy journalism, instructing the peons and elevating their consciousness. The slo-mo but accelerating business disaster that resulted — loss of audience, fading profits, layoffs — should not detract from their considerable success at mastering the basics of propaganda.
The original FM articles about climate change discussed the selling of global warming. These were greeted with cries of the “science is settled.” After 44 points describing the debate among scientists (see my posts here, literature citations here) we return to the original theme — with an example of skilled agitprop. Professionals at work, keeping America misinformed.
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As Mark Twain said:
If you don't read the newspapers, you are uninformed.
If you do read the newspapers, you are misinformed.
And my father said:
"The only part of the paper that is the truth is the sports section, they have to get the scores right."
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That's a great read.
Thanks!