Paranoia?
Our failure to teach history destines us to repeat it.
First, the take over the media. And we allowed it.
The Republican Noise Machine
Then believing the lies.
Nazi Propaganda
Mein Kampf contains the blueprint of later Nazi propaganda efforts. Assessing his audience, Hitler writes in chapter VI:
"Propaganda must always address itself to the broad masses of the people. (...) All propaganda must be presented in a popular form and must fix its intellectual level so as not to be above the heads of the least intellectual of those to whom it is directed. (...) The art of propaganda consists precisely in being able to awaken the imagination of the public through an appeal to their feelings, in finding the appropriate psychological form that will arrest the attention and appeal to the hearts of the national masses. The broad masses of the people are not made up of diplomats or professors of public jurisprudence nor simply of persons who are able to form reasoned judgment in given cases, but a vacillating crowd of human children who are constantly wavering between one idea and another. (...) The great majority of a nation is so feminine in its character and outlook that its thought and conduct are ruled by sentiment rather than by sober reasoning. This sentiment, however, is not complex, but simple and consistent. It is not highly differentiated, but has only the negative and positive notions of love and hatred, right and wrong, truth and falsehood."[5]
Nazi Germany
Why ‘Red’ Outsells ‘Blue’ In The Book Market
Americans are reading far more right-leaning or “red” books than left-leaning “blue” books, according to a survey by Amazon.
NY Times best selling author Glenn Beck autographs books in 2008. (AP)
The New York Times hardcover nonfiction bestseller list also reflects the trend: books by Edward Klein and Dinesh D’Sousa that are highly critical of President Obama are near the top of this week’s list.
It’s a phenomenon that both blogger Ezra Klein and Here and Now literary critic Steve Almond have noticed over the past few years. Almond is a self-proclaimed liberal. But several years back he became fascinated by the frequent appearance of books written by conservative authors like Glenn Beck and Ann Coulter on the non-fiction bestseller lists and on his relatives’ bookshelves.
So he set out reading and found that many of the “red” books had compelling narratives.
“These are books that, putting aside whether thy are factual or not, are deeply emotionally and psychologically involving,” he told Here & Now‘s Robin Young.
- Amazon — Red V. Blue: What Are Americans Reading?
- Salon: ‘Glenn Beck Is The Future Of Literary Fiction,’ By Steve Almond
http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2012/09/17/red-book-amazon
Drudge Report
p165... the Drudge Report, the Internet gossip site maintained by Matt Drudge, an uneducated and professionally untrained former sales clerk at a CBS Entertainment gift shop. In the mid-1990s, Drudge started a Web site on which he posted Hollywood gossip that he said he gleaned at the gift shop. In other interviews, he has intimated that he snooped through executive offices. It didn't take long for the right wing to find Drudge and use his site as a dumping ground for "news" driven by a political agenda. Much of the "news" was false, such as his 1996 report of an imminent indictment of First Lady Hillary Clinton. Drudge has said his postings are 80 percent accurate. An investigation of his claim by the magazine Brill's Content found that ten of thirty-one Drudge "stories" were true. "Screw journalism," Drudge has said. "The whole thing's a fraud anyway."'
From: http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Propaganda/Republican_Noise_Machine.html
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