Reply #61: The ontology of propaganda

[sweetheart]

You don't recognize that the very program itself, the choice to make it
and air the subject itself is propaganda. The programme could just as
well have been made about the global deaths from bad water supplies,
or from AIDS in africa, but that is not going to get riveted atention
as geesh, you've not only seen it, but are raving about it online on
a political party website that the choice to air that particular
segment was exceptionally effective. (propaganda)

Like yourself, i could log in to DU every week, and make up a fear
headline about how i'm deeply afraid of islamic terrorism and make up
a reason every single week... and if i worked on it, i could make it
sound especially punchy, and probably draw out a lotta poison that
the public mind of DU would be so "infected" once per week from
sweetheart's weekly terrorists might do thread. That is a joke you
don't get so much as i've been calling the "terrorists might do" threads
now for some time... Liquid natual gas tankers oooh my! Suicide
limousines Oh my! shoulder fired rockets at commercial aircraft oh my!
Ricin in the water supply oh my! Lions and tigers and bears oh my!

You are selling the power of nightmares. WHomever can tell the
must scary horror story gets the prize and we all worship with
fear. Years ago, we'd call it "campfire yarns"... but these days
its the food of political expediency and the republican adgenda... so
as i said, it sometimes helps to not be programmed by the media,
by their very choice to "inform" you of this noise... laying off the
hard stuff.

peace,
-s