Friday, February 6, 2015

alexrpt — British military will launch a 1,500 strong social media propaganda army to convince the world Russia is evil


Controlling the narrative. It's what contemporary politics and media is all about and the world's militaries, clandestine forces, and deep states are in the forefront. This approach was pioneered buy Sigmund Freud's nephew, Edward Bernays, in the 1920's, initially in his book titled Propaganda. He established the first public relations firm and originated the phrase "engineering of consent." His ideas were quickly adapted to political propaganda and have been extended and refined since then. Now one can't believe anything that one reads, sees, or hears in the media since journalism has become a combination of entertainment and propaganda rather than public information. Bill Black has recently been excoriating the New York Times, supposedly the US "paper of record," on these grounds, for example. Of course, the Murdoch media empire is notorious for this. A prominent German newspaper editor has recently admitted to being paid by the CIA to plant stories.

And the US and UK are enraged that Russia is exporting its version of the news through RT and China is funding Confucius Institutes on university campuses. What hypocrisy.

Red Pill Times
British military will launch a 1,500 strong social media propaganda army to convince the world Russia is evil
alexrpt


1 comment:

Ryan Harris said...

I expect the old fashioned intelligence services have a hard time keeping up with social media and state run media companies. They have fewer resources and fewer people working and need to step up their game. Their old snooping games ala NSA aren't enough, they need to create the narrative and spin.