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In reply to the discussion: Sunday Dental Thread: Leaking Composite Restorations and the Kennedy Assassination: [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)66. Absolutely, tblue37. They paid to develop the art...
...and its application to "take the risk out of democracy" as Alex Carey put it:
Alex Carey: Corporations and Propaganda
The Attack on Democracy
The 20th century, said Carey, is marked by three historic developments: the growth of democracy via the expansion of the franchise, the growth of corporations, and the growth of propaganda to protect corporations from democracy. Carey wrote that the people of the US have been subjected to an unparalleled, expensive, 3/4 century long propaganda effort designed to expand corporate rights by undermining democracy and destroying the unions. And, in his manuscript, unpublished during his life time, he described that history, going back to World War I and ending with the Reagan era. Carey covers the little known role of the US Chamber of Commerce in the McCarthy witch hunts of post WWII and shows how the continued campaign against "Big Government" plays an important role in bringing Reagan to power.
John Pilger called Carey "a second Orwell", Noam Chomsky dedicated his book, Manufacturing Consent, to him. And even though TUC Radio runs our documentary based on Carey's manuscript at least every two years and draws a huge response each time, Alex Carey is still unknown.
Given today's spotlight on corporations that may change. It is not only the Occupy movement that inspired me to present this program again at this time. By an amazing historic coincidence Bill Moyers and Charlie Cray of Greenpeace have just added the missing chapter to Carey's analysis. Carey's manuscript ends in 1988 when he committed suicide. Moyers and Cray begin with 1971 and bring the corporate propaganda project up to date.
This is a fairly complex production with many voices, historic sound clips, and source material. The program has been used by writers and students of history and propaganda. Alex Carey: Taking the Risk out of Democracy, Corporate Propaganda VS Freedom and Liberty with a foreword by Noam Chomsky was published by the University of Illinois Press in 1995.
SOURCE: http://tucradio.org/new.html
Thankfully, to help spread light when the protectors of the First Amendment won't, Maria Galardin's TUC (Time of Useful Consciousness) Radio. The podcast helps explain how we got here and what we need to do to move forward, starting with putting the "Public" into Airwaves again:
http://tucradio.org/AlexCarey_ONE.mp3
If you find a moment, here's the first part (scroll down at the link for the second part) on Carey.
The Propaganda System That Has Helped Create a Permanent Overclass Is Over a Century in the Making
Pulling back the curtain on how intent the wealthiest Americans have been on establishing a propaganda tool to subvert democracy.
Wednesday, 17 April 2013 00:00
By Andrew Gavin Marshall, AlterNet | News Analysis
Where there is the possibility of democracy, there is the inevitability of elite insecurity. All through its history, democracy has been under a sustained attack by elite interests, political, economic, and cultural. There is a simple reason for this: democracy as in true democracy places power with people. In such circumstances, the few who hold power become threatened. With technological changes in modern history, with literacy and education, mass communication, organization and activism, elites have had to react to the changing nature of society locally and globally.
From the late 19th century on, the threats to elite interests from the possibility of true democracy mobilized institutions, ideologies, and individuals in support of power. What began was a massive social engineering project with one objective: control. Through educational institutions, the social sciences, philanthropic foundations, public relations and advertising agencies, corporations, banks, and states, powerful interests sought to reform and protect their power from the potential of popular democracy.
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The development of psychology, psychoanalysis, and other disciplines increasingly portrayed the public and the population as irrational beings incapable of making their own decisions. The premise was simple: if the population was driven by dangerous, irrational emotions, they needed to be kept out of power and ruled over by those who were driven by reason and rationality, naturally, those who were already in power.
The Princeton Radio Project, which began in the 1930s with Rockefeller Foundation funding, brought together many psychologists, social scientists, and experts armed with an interest in social control, mass communication, and propaganda. The Princeton Radio Project had a profound influence upon the development of a modern "democratic propaganda" in the United States and elsewhere in the industrialized world. It helped in establishing and nurturing the ideas, institutions, and individuals who would come to shape Americas democratic propaganda throughout the Cold War, a program fostered between the private corporations which own the media, advertising, marketing, and public relations industries, and the state itself.
CONTINUED...
http://truth-out.org/news/item/15784-the-propaganda-system-that-has-helped-create-a-permanent-overclass-is-over-a-century-in-the-making
Unfortunately, Corporate McPravda owns and operates what goes over the airwaves. And, even in the time of the Internet, Corporate Tee Vee is still where most Americans get most of their information.
It's important for there to be more than a handful of companies providing "news." Democracy -- and Justice and Justice for JFK, MLK and RFK -- depend on it.
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Sunday Dental Thread: Leaking Composite Restorations and the Kennedy Assassination: [View all]
PCIntern
Dec 2013
OP
You're exactly right about the flinging and slinging of preposterous theories.
Zen Democrat
Dec 2013
#2
It's like some people have an irony gland secreting neurochemicals that compel them. n/t
Egalitarian Thug
Dec 2013
#9
And I thought there was no conspiracy until I began to read about it myself a few years ago.
sabrina 1
Dec 2013
#17
Yet another CTer speaking in abstract terms about "counter evidence" that's out there somewhere...
DanTex
Dec 2013
#51
I don't care what you 'find hard to believe'. Show me comments from me on this issue
sabrina 1
Dec 2013
#62
I think that if you had actually read about it, you would have some actual evidence.
DanTex
Dec 2013
#64
I never said there was evidence of a second gunman. I have repeatedly stated that who actually
sabrina 1
Dec 2013
#71
Last post, you said "the most flawed 'finding' of the WC was that Oswald was a 'lone gunman'."
DanTex
Dec 2013
#72
First of all, there was a palm print, and second of all, lack of fingerprints is
DanTex
Dec 2013
#58
Another dental story with a broader moral about institutional failure, here.
proverbialwisdom
Dec 2013
#50
Actually, I find Orrex's reply in this thread to be much funnier than my reply.
The Midway Rebel
Dec 2013
#63
Agree 'in theory' that the American people are being bombarded with bullshit; but you omitted this:
freshwest
Dec 2013
#73