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10 Most Critical Things To Consider While Consuming Mainstream News
Dylan Charles at WakingTimes.com writes:
It’s no secret that 90% of American media is owned by just 6 corporate conglomerates, and it’s also no secret that the media is used by political and corporate propagandists as a tool to reach deep into the hearts and minds of the masses. Mainstream newscasts are a staged version of reality, and as world events continue to rise in pitch and fervor, so will the propaganda, so it’s imperative to brush up on critical thinking skills as a defense against falling into group-think and mass-hysteria.
The great irony here, though, is that it is precisely through the power of media that people will awaken to the deceit happening in the media. By and large the programming that makes it to our eyes and ears is produced to support an agenda, but, even amongst the corporate programs there are genuine voices of reason and truth.
Sadly, I do not even come close to sharing Mr. Charles optimism that through the power of the media that people will awaken to the deceit being perpetrated on them. The 10 tips listed below as part of the article certainly cannot hurt, but to think the media can be used to fix the media is lunacy. I’m afraid the video paints a much more accurate depiction. America has a sickness. It has a horrible cancer, and the country is in desperate need of a cure that does not currently exist. The video starts off by saying that 67% of Americans don’t trust the media, and it begins to go into several examples of blatant lies by the media. Just before the 10:00 minute mark the truth that NO ONE wants to hear begins to flow.
The video recalls that in 1912, “JP Morgan Interests” hired 12 high ranking managers from different news organizations. They were tasked with determining which papers in the United States were the most influential ones. Once that was determined, next the group was tasked with how many of those papers would be required to generally control the policy of the entire daily press of the United States. After it was determined that to establish control of the national media narrative would only require taking control of the 25 best newspapers papers in the nation, an “agreement” was made.
“The policy of all the papers was bought, and an editor was placed at each paper to insure that all published information was in keeping with the new policy.” Soon, that policy would be defined by a small front group for JP Morgan and his closest colleagues, including his personal attorney who even served as the first President of the front group. Other notable members of this “front group” were none other than the Rockefellers and the Warburg’s, aka two of the 13 Families That Rule the World and Are the Shadow Forces Behind the New World Order. The front group later went on to become known as the “Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).”
Today, the CFR maintains that its goal is to “increase America’s understanding of the world,” whatever that means, however the REAL mission of this highly exclusive club only occasionally finds its way into the light when a member of the group lets something slip out. A classic example was in the 1970’s when a Georgetown University Professor named Carrol Quigley was writing a book that viewed the Council on Foreign Relations in a favorable light, so the CFR granted him access to their private files. Professor Quigley subsequently revealed that the group’s true goal was:
“to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country, and the economy of the world as a whole.”
In short, they seek total and quiet control. End of story.
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Dylan Charles continues:
So, how do you tell the difference between a voice of truth and voice of deceit?
The fog of the propaganda war is sure to thicken in the coming months and years, so here are 10 absolutely critical points to ask yourself when consuming mainstream media.
This checklist was submitted by one of our readers, George L. Humphries, who brings a lifetime of experience in military and law enforcement to bear on the issue of propaganda.
Questions I routinely ask myself while reading or viewing. And I ALWAYS pay attention to the masthead and the credits!
1. Who is the author – nationality, ideology and political affiliation, religion, affinity group, related experience base, and education? Who are this author’s friends and promoters? Where, by who, and possibly why is this author normally published? Are other publications by this author parallel, or do they take a different angle entirely – and if so, why?
2. Unstated underlying value assumptions. What values does the author assume the audience shares, and upon which the author builds the thesis? Do you share these values? Does the author in fact share these values, or are they used merely to sell copy or manipulate the reader to a desired attitude or conclusion? What symbols does the author use?
3. Is the author attempting to ‘frame an argument’? What alternative frameworks for the argument occur to you? Why might the author attempt to frame the argument in the way provided, and exclude from identification, acknowledgment or general acceptance other frameworks? Is the author’s thesis merely a preemptive counter-accusation?
4. Does the author’s mistrust of one government extend to all governments, or does the author forgive the sins of a particular nation’s regimes and ascribe to them an overwhelming benign humanitarian sensibility? What are the shear points in the logical development of the author’s thesis – does the author jump from one well-developed line to an undeveloped one to engage you in the pre-drawn conclusion, hoping you won’t notice or object to the somersault en route?
5. Does the author appeal to your intellect, your emotions, or both? Does the author subliminally propose that all civilized, educated, right-thinking people of the social elite think a certain way, thereby suggesting that your attitudes should fall in line? Does the author recruit you for the ‘Heavenly Host’ by appealing to ‘common’ religious values? Does the author appeal to your sense of justice and proportionality? Does the author appeal to your spirit of humanity? Does the author wave the flag? What does the author’s peripheral vision include, and what does it exclude? What does the author’s cognitive dissonance miniaturize, and what does it enlarge?
6. What gimmicks does the author use to characterize individuals or groups? Does the author use hyperbolic comparisons to historical figures such as Hitler or Jesus? Does the author try to make a case through guilt by association or guilt by dissociation, or innocence by association or innocence by dissociation? Does the author damn with faint praise or edify through shallow criticism? Does the author tear down and trivialize individuals through cheap, pseudo-comic references to personal habits, modes of dress or accent, and then compound these with unfair, grotesque analogies? Does the author use the unsubstantiated words of others, great or terrible, to reference an individual’s character or lack thereof?
From where and from whom does the author draw expert witnesses and citations, and do you agree with these sources? Are sources footnoted or substantiated in some way? Might a citation be the old propagandist’s trick of referring to an item carefully placed elsewhere just for that purpose?
7. What themes can be identified? For this author, who or what is good and who or what is bad? What is the author’s litmus test and bottom line, and do you share it? What alternative does the author wish us to identify and support, even if it is not outlined in bold terms?
8. What is the author’s agenda? What, if anything, does the author want us to believe when we have finished reading or viewing, or what action if any would the author like us to take? Remembering that the best propaganda is the truth, and the second best propaganda is 99% truth as a vehicle to propel a 1% lie, does this article fall into either of these two categories? What piece of information might be the 1% lie?
9. Does the author recommend military action? What other conflicts has the author supported, and what other conflicts has the author opposed? What military service, if any, does the author have, and for which nation? Does the author want to put one nation’s blood and treasure in harm’s way for the benefit of a client state? Is the author still fighting a past war? If so, which one, and what side is taken? From your point of view, which conflict should the author be fighting, and from what side?
10. If the author was a paid agent of (foreign) intelligence services(s), who might be the author’s paymaster(s)?
– George L. Humphries
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Re; 10 Most Critical Things To Consider While Consuming Mainstream News.
It seems the writer left out that the Jew’s factually own most of the Media outlets, seems that it was left out as well that the US. CIA-NSA, have been buying up other Media Outlets as Al Jazeera America and America One, missing as well is that Fox News and Other Outlets are packed with Jew Golem’s, (a Golem is a jew pretending to be of another religion in order to rack-trash Gentiles from the Inside), MSNBC seems to be the Gay-Liberal Outlet, to me it seems what we the Media Victims NEED-REQUIRE, if for every Media Outlet being required to have what every a Media Person really is printed under there face with there Agenda, for the under the rock Masters-Owners of the Media Outlet to be Banner-ed 24-7, on screen so we know just what there are Pushing up our Butts, it seems to me we need a Court to Over Rule the Ruling for Fox News, that they the Sorry Media, can Knowingly with Intent Lie to US with with Impunity, Oh did I miss that we need an Honest government.
If we had an Honest Media we could have an Honest government, the Sorry Drug Dealer who Deserted the Vietnam POW’S-MIA’S, as the Director of the CIA, Bush the Older, would never have gotten in the Whit House, Bush the Younger, the Vietnam Military Deserter and the Older Bush’s Prim Cocain Tester, would never have gotten near the White House and the Third Bush would never Try for the White House, McCain and the Obomination not being Born American Citizens, could not have been able to have ran for the White House, (and no Nigger would be in the White House), there would not be the Mass Middle East Wars going on and on and on and ISIS would not Exist as the US would not have Created it, all this Treason, REQUIRED THE CORRUPT MEDIA and a Population of americans with Little Long Term Memory. (Trapper).