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[R. S. Refugee]

"...in the United States "great progress [had been] made towards the ideal of a propaganda-managed democracy", whose principal aim was to identify a rapacious business state "with every cherished human value"."

The Propaganda War On Democracy

In 1987, the Australian sociologist Alex Carey, a second Orwell in his prophesies, wrote "Managing Public Opinion: the corporate offensive". He described how in the United States "great progress [had been] made towards the ideal of a propaganda-managed democracy", whose principal aim was to identify a rapacious business state "with every cherished human value". The power and meaning of true democracy, of the franchise itself, would be "transferred" to the propaganda of advertising, public relations and corporate-run news. This "model of ideological control", he predicted, would be adopted by other countries, such as Britain.

To many who work conscientiously in the media in developed societies, this will sound alarmist; it is not like that in Britain, they will say. Ask them about censorship by omission or the promotion of business ideology and war propaganda as news, a promotion both subtle and crude, and their defensive response will be that no one ever instructed them to follow any line: no one ever said not to question the Prime Minister about the horror he had helped to inflict on Iraq: his epic criminality. "Blair always enjoys his interviews with Paxo," says Roger Mosey, the head of BBC Television News, without a hint of irony.

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=21&ItemID=7871

[funplanet]

right on, brother.....good piece and sadly enough...quite true

[Ya-ta Boy]

[suwonteacher]

Good topic, too bad there aren't more posts.

[Senior]

This topic is covered quite well in the doco Century Of Self. The man who came up with all this mumbo jumbo is Freud himself. The doco is very good up until the last 40 minutes, where he draws completely erroneous conclusions from all the data he had built up in the previous 3 hours.