That’s a very extrinsic perspective, so let’s included the other far more powerful and consequential propaganda organs; the whole media, news, TV, movie, cultural conglomeration of the American empire. If you consume “mainstream” American news, TV, movies, etc. you are being propagandized way more powerfully than anything a Sputnik, RT, AJ, DW, BBC, etc. could ever hope to achieve.
It’s not any of these rather meaningless little foreign entities that cause the major swings in “opinion” in the America that cause people to abandoned their own supposed core beliefs by getting the new firmware updates through the telescreen. I would provide a clear example, but I also don’t want to give the impression that it’s any one party or ideology, the majority of people get their firmware updates beamed into their heads through the telescreen. That is what is actually filing the void of people’s minds, not the crumbs from RT or even the slightly bigger crumbs of the BBC, it’s the approved, authorized mainstream information streams emanating from the telescreen that update people’s whatToThink; be it who to vote for or who to bomb.
> If you consume “mainstream” American news, TV, movies, etc. you are being propagandized way more powerfully than anything a Sputnik, RT, AJ, DW, BBC, etc. could ever hope to achieve.
War films are the most overt examples but far from the only ones:
> Four decades after the release of the 1954 adult animated film Animal Farm, Cold War historian Tony Shaw discovered, through looking at archives of the film, that the CIA had secretly purchased the rights to the film. The CIA also altered the ending of the film so that the pigs, who represent communists, were overthrown by the other animals on the farm.
Said to an American news anchor (who later dismissed the speaker as a "brilliant conspiracist" for this line): "I’m sure you believe everything you say. But what I’m saying is if you believed something different you wouldn’t be sitting where you’re sitting."
That’s a very extrinsic perspective, so let’s included the other far more powerful and consequential propaganda organs; the whole media, news, TV, movie, cultural conglomeration of the American empire. If you consume “mainstream” American news, TV, movies, etc. you are being propagandized way more powerfully than anything a Sputnik, RT, AJ, DW, BBC, etc. could ever hope to achieve.
It’s not any of these rather meaningless little foreign entities that cause the major swings in “opinion” in the America that cause people to abandoned their own supposed core beliefs by getting the new firmware updates through the telescreen. I would provide a clear example, but I also don’t want to give the impression that it’s any one party or ideology, the majority of people get their firmware updates beamed into their heads through the telescreen. That is what is actually filing the void of people’s minds, not the crumbs from RT or even the slightly bigger crumbs of the BBC, it’s the approved, authorized mainstream information streams emanating from the telescreen that update people’s whatToThink; be it who to vote for or who to bomb.
> If you consume “mainstream” American news, TV, movies, etc. you are being propagandized way more powerfully than anything a Sputnik, RT, AJ, DW, BBC, etc. could ever hope to achieve.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military–entertainment_complex
War films are the most overt examples but far from the only ones:
> Four decades after the release of the 1954 adult animated film Animal Farm, Cold War historian Tony Shaw discovered, through looking at archives of the film, that the CIA had secretly purchased the rights to the film. The CIA also altered the ending of the film so that the pigs, who represent communists, were overthrown by the other animals on the farm.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird
Said to an American news anchor (who later dismissed the speaker as a "brilliant conspiracist" for this line): "I’m sure you believe everything you say. But what I’m saying is if you believed something different you wouldn’t be sitting where you’re sitting."
Al Jazeera is great too.