Navigating A Society Full Of Propaganda And ManipulationNarrative Control Operations Escalate As America Burns
Propaganda
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| "The primary aim of official propaganda is to generate an "official narrative" that can be mindlessly repeated by the ruling classes and those who support and identify with them." - CJ Hopkins |
1917 With World War I dragging on in Europe Bernard Mannes Baruch and Edward Mandell House have Woodrow Wilson enlist George Creel.
George Creel forms the The Committee of Public Information, the Creel Commission, which primes and greases the US propaganda machine.
Edward Louis Bernays sythesizes the ideas of Gustave Le Bon and Wilfred Trotter on crowd psychology with the psychoanalytical ideas of his uncle, Sigmund Freud.
Edward Louis Bernays felt it was necessary to manipulate the public through propaganda to dampen down the "herd instinct".
Edward Louis Bernays, author of Propaganda, is one of the first to attempt to manipulate public opinion using the psychology of the subconscious.
"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in a democratic society.
Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.
We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by social engineers we have never heard of.
This is a logical result of the way in which our society is organized.
Vast numbers of human beings must coöperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society.
In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses.
They pull the wires to control the public consciousness." - Edward Bernays*
Walter Lippmann argued propaganda was necessary to 'manufacture consent' and that 'the common interests elude public opinion entirely'.
To this end Walter Lippmann suggested propaganda could only be understood and managed by a 'specialized class of responsible men' who are intelligent enough to figure out what was best for Americans.
Edward Louis Bernays, the father of the public relations industry, and Walter Lippmann, the dean of American journalists, a major foreign and domestic policy critic, and an important theorist of neoliberal democracy were drafted along with a group of cartoonists, writers, editors, publishers.
Edward Bernays popularized tobacco smoking with American women by hiring beautiful women to walk down Madison Avenue while smoking cigarettes, giving women the idea that smoking is synonymous with beauty.
Within a year Bernays and Walter Lippmann, through the machinations of the Creel Commission, turn a large number of Americans from a population friendly to Germans into a fervent anti-German populace.
"Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any more. Now people want to think only what they are supposed to think, and this they consider freedom." - Oswald Spengler
1927 Ivan Pavlov studies instinctive response to any sudden or novel visual or auditory stimulus.
1930 Carl Byoir leases two Cuban newspapers, the Havana Post and the Havana Telegram.
He becomes an influential intermediary for Americans wishing to invest in Cuba.
Byoir made his name helping FDR establish the March of Dimes foundation.
German television, dependent of vacuum tubes, is conceived primarily as a tool of propaganda rather than as a means of entertainment.
Cinema television is used throughout the war for troop entertainment.
"Violence is
to a dictatorship,
what propaganda is to a democracy."
Joseph
Goebbels
1933 Joseph Goebbels, Reich Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, combines all media dissemination vehicles - the press, radio, film and theater - into one institution he controls.
Joseph Goebbels considers media "a piano in the hands of the government" on which the government could play.
Joseph Goebbels realizes monotony may set in so he develops a theory that mass media should be "uniform in principle" but "polyform in nuances."
Goebbels hypothesis is based on the observations of Walter Lippmann.
1937 The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company hires Carl Byoir to help it fight the powerful anti-chain-store movement, which sought to break up big chains in order to protect independent retailers and wholesalers.
Working behind the scenes, Byoir organized a campaign to highlight the benefits of chains in reducing consumer prices.
September 15, 1938 1,600 publications run a full-page ad headlined "A Statement of Public Policy by the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company."
The advertisement criticizes a bill introduced by Representative Wright Patman of Texas to impose punitive taxes on chain stores.
The bill is blocked, and the power of the anti-chain movement wanes.
Fighting US Psychological Operations
"Propagandists for a long while have realized that a lie is not good alone, "truth pays," that propaganda must be based upon facts." - Jacques Ellul
"There are two types of propaganda: rational propaganda in favor of action that is consonant with the enlightened self-interest of those who make it and those to whom it is addressed; non-rational propaganda that is not consonant with anybody's enlightened self-interest, but is dictated by, and appeals to, passion." - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited
There are three 'colors' of propaganda:
'white'- truthfully attributed and non-attributed messages
'gray'- falsely attributed to a third party messages
'black' - nothing less than a form of intellectual subversion
Propagandists prepare a three stage strategic campaign - the propaganda techniques they chose are "Desensitization," "Jamming," and "Conversion" to build moral indifference.
Desensitization through indoctrination reduces public sensitivity and moral outrage by inundating the public with a continuous flood of repulsive ideas.
Desensitization convinces a very weary public to view the issue under discussion with moral indifference or apathy rather than sharp emotion.
Jamming is psychological terrorism used to silence dissenting opinion.
People that display strong moral conviction are castigated as reactionaries.
Conversion is the manipulation of perception and belief through allusion, insinuation and false association.
Propaganda 'converts' the individual to the 'correct' way of thinking.
"We'll Know Our Disinformation Program Is Complete
When
Everything the American Public Believes Is False."
Operation MOCKINGBIRD
US Govt Legalizes Operation Mockingbird
Operation Mockingbird, CIA Media Control Program
CIA Funding and Manipulation of the US News Media
late 40s CIA begins recruiting American news organizations and journalists to become spies and disseminators of propaganda.
The effort is headed by Allen Welsh Dulles, Richard Helms, Frank Wisner and Philip Graham.
Graham is publisher of the Washington Post, a major CIA player.
"It can be shown with plentiful evidence that Bradlee and the Post did some, at best incomplete, at worst spurious, reporting on at least three mammoth issues from its heyday: John Kennedy’s assassination, the global policies of JFK’s presidency and even Richard Nixon’s Watergate scandal.
There were several other major lapses - the murders of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968 and the CIA’s Contra-drug-running in the 1980s." - James DiEugenio, Ben Bradlee’s Not Such ‘A Good Life’
Mockingbird
Declassified
CIA Documents Show Agency
Control Over Mainstream Media &
Academia
Newly-Declassified
Documents Show CIA Worked Closely with
Owners and Journalists with Many of
the Largest Media Outlets
Eventually, the CIA media assets will include elements within ABC, NBC, CBS, Time, Newsweek, Associated Press, United Press International, Reuters, Hearst Newspapers, Scripps-Howard, Copley News Service and more.
CIA admits at least 25 organizations and 400 journalists became CIA assets.
1949 CIA creates its first major propaganda outlet, Radio Free Europe.
Over the next several decades, its broadcasts are so blatantly false that it is considered illegal to publish transcripts of them in the US.
early 1950's Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty are organized by the Agency as outlets of propaganda.
The intent of Radio Free Europe is to broadcast into the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe to "keep hope alive among friends"; "confuse, divide and undermine enemies"; and "encourage uprisings against government."
Bing Crosby, Henry Fonda, Ronald Reagan, Rock Hudson, and Barbara Stanwyck all made propaganda films or radio broadcasts.
"I was sitting on a stool at the bar of the luxurious Grand Hotel waiting for an appointment when the man sat down on the stool next to me.
I recognized William Colby from pictures in the press announcing his presence in Rome.
I nodded, said hello, and we chatted bar talk until the chat turned into a short interview, which I subsequently published in the European press.
I asked him point-blank about the mysterious Stay-Behind Army.
To my surprise Colby almost boasted about the covert action branches built throughout Western Europe known as 'Stay-Behind Nets', in Italy as Gladio, headquartered in Rome.
In that post-war period Colby was a young intelligence officer assigned to the CIA station in the US Rome Embassy.
Officially the network was clandestine ready to be called into action for sabotage when the time came.
Colby claimed in 1951 the chief of the CIA in West Europe sent him to help build the Stay-Behind network.
'Our aim was the creation of an Italian nationalism capable of halting the slide to the left,' he said." - Gaither Stewart
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1953 Cold war disinformation arm of the CIA is centered in the "Mighty Wurlitzer" propaganda offices of Wall Street veteran Frank Wisner.
This operation has thousands of employees adept at planting press and radio stories, engaging with labor unions, applying economic pressure, offering direct monetary payments while waging political and cultural warfare.
Frank Wisner captured OSS filmmaker John Ford and studio bosses Cecil B. DeMille (Paramount Pictures) and Darryl Zanuck (20th Century-Fox).
Howard Hughes, the boss of RKO Pictures, jumped on the transport plane "exacerbated by his desire to have Hughes Aircraft profit from the Korean and any future anti-Soviet wars".
A main concern was the portrayal of race-relations in movies.
It was argued that the left was using this issue to undermine the idea that America was a democracy based on equal rights.
Letters from Charles Douglas Jackson sent to the producers of films called for scenes showing Blacks mixing on equal terms with whites.
J. Edgar Hoover, fearful of growing CIA power, gave Joseph McCarthy details of an affair Frank Wisner had with Princess Caradja of Romania.
Joseph McCarthy began claiming senior CIA members were security risks.
FBI refuses to give Cord Meyer "security clearance".
Drew Pearson, Joe Alsop, Jack Anderson, Walter Lippmann and Edward Murrow all go into attack mode and Joseph Raymond McCarthy is permanently damaged by the press coverage orchestrated by Frank Wisner.
Roy Marcus Cohn, a DoJ prosecutor at the espionage trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, is chief counsel in investigations of suspected communists, a top political fixer, and Donald Trump's mentor and personal lawyer.
After leaving McCarthy, Cohn has a 30-year career as an attorney in New York City.
His clients included Donald Trump; New York Yankees baseball club and New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner; Aristotle Onassis; Mafia figures Tony Salerno, Carmine Galante, and John Gotti; Studio 54 owners Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager; the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, and Texas financier and philanthropist Shearn Moody, Jr.
Secret life of J Edgar Hoover
1954 Edward Bernays most infamous project is the propaganda effort behind the CIA coup in Guatemala.
Framed as a "liberation from communism" it is in fact a rekindling of the decades-long dictatorship to protect the interests of the United Fruit Company who has hired him to manage the media campaign against the democratic socialist government of Guatemala.
April 1967 "CIA send an official memorandum dispatch to agency chiefs and stations.
This memo described a strategy for discrediting critics of the Warren Report, the official account for the assassination of President Kennedy.
At the time of the memo, polls showed that 46% of Americans do not think Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, in contradiction to the official narrative.
To counter such criticisms, the memo proposes labeling critics as "conspiracy theorists" and proposed Agency "propaganda assets" in media begin to use this slur and related techniques to marginalize critics.
The memo instructed media assets to discredit those questioning government reports by saying the critics should be depicted as "wedded to theories adopted before the evidence was in, hasty or inaccurate in their research, or infatuated with their own theories."
The approach laid out by the memo was adopted by many in American media." - Kevin Ryan
March 1967 Ramparts publishes NSA and the CIA by Sol Stern.
NSA and the CIA reports CIA funding of the National Student Association; exposed the whole system of anti-Communist front organizations in Europe, Asia, and South America while naming Cord Meyer as key to this campaign.
This article also notes the funding of the literary journal Encounter, Stephen Spender and Irving Kristol.
The Ramparts Affair
"The 1960's witnessed a democratic
upsurge
of democratic fervor in America."
Samuel Phillips
Huntington
1976
Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities:
"The CIA currently maintains a network of several hundred foreign individuals around the world who provide intelligence for the CIA and at times attempt to influence opinion through the use of covert propaganda.
These individuals provide the CIA with direct access to a large number of newspapers and periodicals, scores of press services and news agencies, radio and television stations, commercial book publishers, and foreign media."
Frank Church argues the cost of misinforming the world is costing American taxpayers an estimated $265 million a year.
Trilateral Commission, issues report labeled 'Governability of Democracies.'
Samuel Phillips Huntington, a political science professor at Harvard University and a long time consultant to the White House, writes there is a huge growth of citizen participation 'in the forms of marches, demonstrations, protest movements, and cause organizations.'
'Markedly higher levels of self-consciousness on the part of the disenfranchised, 'marked expansion of white-collar unionism,' all add up to 'a reassertion of unalienable rights in social, economic and political life'.
"The essence of the democratic surge of the 1960's is a general challenge to existing systems of authority, public and private.
In one form or another, this challenge manifested itself in the family, the university, business, public and private associations, politics, the governmental bureaucracy, and the military services.
People no longer felt the same obligation to obey those whom they had previously considered superior to themselves in age, rank, status, expertise, character, or talents." - Samuel Phillips Huntington
At the forefront of White House thinking is the command and control of the global marketplace through information manipulation and control.
Corporate movies, television programs, recorded music, theme parks, advertising and news broadcasts offer a Talmudwood perspective.
A Talmudwood program structure is exported globally resulting in a corporate style which includes shorter news segments, a de-emphasis on government and politics, fewer talking heads, more graphic material, "warm and fuzzy" stories and more corporate image burnishing.
"The president, to win the election, needs the support of a broad coalition, however, the day after the election, the size of his majority is irrelevant to his ability to govern the country.
What counts then is the president's ability to mobilize support from leaders of key institutions.
This coalition must include individuals in Congress, the executive branch, corporate media and the corporate industrial sector." - Samuel Huntington
1977 New York Times investigative series states the Agency owned or subsidized more than 50 newspapers, news services, radio stations, periodicals and other communications facilities.
Paid agents infiltrated a dozen foreign news organizations, and at least 22 American news organizations employ agents as journalists.
US publishers print over 1,000 books produced or subsidized by the CIA.
Copely News Service works closely with the intelligence services - in fact, 23 employees are full-time employees of the Agency.
1986 Byron Reeves and Esther Thorson began to study whether the formal features of television - cuts, edits, zooms, pans, sudden noises - activate the biological orienting response, thereby keeping attention on the screen.
Watching brain waves affected by cuts, edits, zooms, pans, and sudden noises they concluded that stylistic tricks can indeed trigger involuntary responses through the evolutionary significance of detecting movement.
Their findings explain the never ending action of broadcast advertisements and why older people prefer peaceful drama over youthful action movies.
Passivity and a lower level of alertness correlate with televison veiwing.
Once the television is turned off, the sense of relaxation dissipates quickly, but passivity and lowered alertness remain for a considerable time.
As relaxation occurs quickly, people are conditioned to associate viewing of television with a lack of tension.
Once the screen is turned back on astral projection begins and a hypnotic state is once again entered into.
The association is positively reinforced as viewers remain relaxed throughout viewing, and it is negatively reinforced via the stress and dysphoric rumination that occurs once the television screen goes blank again.
Habit forming drugs work in a similar manner.
A tranquilizer that leaves the body rapidly is much more likely to cause dependence than one that leaves the body slowly, precisely because the user is more aware that the effects of the drug are wearing off.
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"People see the headline, see what the story is supposedly about, there is already a built-in set of expectations from the audience. When we write the stories we can play off of and play against those expectations." - Rene Balcer
1988 Talmudwood has skimmed stories from headlines for decades and television has followed suit.
Millions of Americans watch the evening news.
Even more watch the entertainment that surrounds it.
The most popular programs are fictionalized accounts of pseudo real events.
Media psychology uses the theories, concepts and methods of psychology to study the impact of media on individuals, groups, and cultures.
Media psychology studies the psychological parameters of communications between people that are mediated by a technology or conduit other than air.
Media psychology is interested in delivering intervention strategies through print and electronic media to modify every aspect of human behavior.
This is done through the black magic screen with music, camera angles, editing, lighting and all facets of sound and image production that create impressions that facilitate immersion in the pseudo reality presented.
The field of media psychology has found the most effective means of indoctrinating and conditioning people is to embed the message to be conveyed into the narratives of the compounded fictionalized stories.
People are branded when the prescribed message is able to bypass the conscious attention of the receiver.
Social and political agendas can be subconsciously set and the manner in which reality is understood can be easily revised.
Corporations spend thousands of hours and millions of dollars devising ways to decieve the public, the public has little time to design counter strategies.
In order to adequately control a target population an emotional response must be conditioned into the subconscious of the target population - a manufactured desire the target population is consciously unaware of.
Media literacy, knowing how the messages conveyed by media affect us emotionally, cognitively, and behaviorally, and how to defend against indoctrinating messages, is vital for an informed, free society.
2009 Archives of General Psychiatry report finds for each hour of television viewed per day male teenagers had a statistically significant greater likelihood of developing depression in young adulthood.
"Media is so image rich and content poor that it just serves to capture the eye, manipulate emotions, and short-circuit reason. Propaganda industries function increasingly like adult obedience industries . " - Nancy Snow
"Moving from one stimulus to another, the mind develops a higher and higher tolerance to stimulation.
So the dosage must increase: video games that are more exciting, television is faster-paced, more dramatic.
Movies and television programming have over the last few decades become increasingly fast-paced, the editing faster, the scenes shorter, the special effects more dramatic." - Charles Eisenstein
July 2, 2012
US Repeals Propaganda Ban
'Anti-Propaganda' Ban Repealed
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