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uriel1972

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13. Ubiquity helps...

Sun Oct 6, 2013, 09:28 PM

Oct 2013

Being on everywhere and being the sole news service for demographic sectors. It ads to the "echo chamber", the constant repetition and reinforcement of ideas.
No other ideas get airtime to dispute the "Fox facts" and the "Fox facts" become "common knowledge". The people who watch it "know" in their bones the "truth" because they've grown up with it, it's what they want to hear and it's what they hear wherever they go.

Propaganda in its purest form. 1984, eat your heart out.

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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