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SummerSnow

(12,608 posts) Sun Oct 6, 2013, 08:51 PM Oct 2013

What do you think is the most successful brainwashing technique Faux News uses? [View all]

I saw this list on alternet.org

http://www.alternet.org/story/151497/14_propaganda_techniques_fox_%27news%27_uses_to_brainwash_americans?page=0%2C3

1. Panic Mongering

2. Character Assasination

3. Projecting/Flipping

4. Rewriting History

5. Scapegoating

6. Conflicting violence w/ power and opposition to violence and weakness

7. Bullying

8. Confusion

9. Populism

10. Invoking the Christian God

11. Saturation

12. Disparaging education

13. Guilt by association

14. Diversion

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What do you think is the most successful brainwashing technique Faux News uses? [View all] SummerSnow Oct 2013 OP

Yes CurtEastPoint Oct 2013 #1

GMTA GreenPartyVoter Oct 2013 #16

Fear. blkmusclmachine Oct 2013 #2

Repetition. Curmudgeoness Oct 2013 #3

That was my immediate thought etherealtruth Oct 2013 #4

Yep, repetition. Ad infinitum, ad nauseum. n/t Fridays Child Oct 2013 #6

The cleverest one I know is "some people are saying" doc03 Oct 2013 #5

How could I know? JDPriestly Oct 2013 #7

Don't act like you don't know their tactics. Curmudgeoness Oct 2013 #9

That's difficult to choose from, the sum = far more than the indivdual parts, Uncle Joe Oct 2013 #8

Disparaging education warrant46 Oct 2013 #10

The whole news parody they do. gulliver Oct 2013 #11

Calling NPR liberal when it's certainly not coldmountain Oct 2013 #12

Ubiquity helps... uriel1972 Oct 2013 #13

Innuendo n/t TroglodyteScholar Oct 2013 #14

Conning the corporate media into mainstreaming RW memes (using BIG LIE of "liberal media bias") Faryn Balyncd Oct 2013 #15

Stupid audience. OffWithTheirHeads Oct 2013 #17

The brains can't be washed when there ain't brains to start with!1 n/t UTUSN Oct 2013 #18