PR Firms = Propaganda

[SportscarBruce]

Here's a short film by John Stauber, founder of PR Watch

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rPQCPwdwHQ

http://www.prwatch.org/

It contaminates everything we see and hear today. Mainstream news, politics, religion, motor sports reporting, etc.

[anthonyvop]

Here's a short film by John Stauber, founder of PR Watch

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rPQCPwdwHQ

http://www.prwatch.org/

It contaminates everything we see and hear today. Mainstream news, politics, religion, motor sports reporting, etc.

All one has to do is click on their list of financial supports to realize they are just a bunch of hypocrites. They hate PR if it doesn't jibe with their beliefs. If it does then it is the truth.

[SportscarBruce]

Gee "Tony", you're the only person I've ever encountered on the 'net to defend Goldman Sachs' actions in the meltdown, paint the history of motor racing as a scheme to sell newspapers, and forward the notion a corruption-fighting organization is corrupt due to private funding.

You must be in the PR biz...

[SportscarBruce]

Highly recommended follow-up viewing;

How to Brainwash a Nation

From Episode Two of the film series "The Century of the Self" by Adam Curtis. The nephew of Sigmund Freud, Edward Bernays started his business life as a publicist. While still in his twenties, he was part of the propaganda effort that drove the United States into in World War I (WW I.)

He personally advised several US presidents starting with Woodrow Wilson and counseled numerous corporations and business associations. Hitler's propaganda chief and Nazi henchman Joseph Goebbels was a reader and fan of Bernay's writing in particular Bernay's book "Crystalizing Public Opinion."

In this short excerpt from Curtis's film we see one example of Bernays at work.

Bernays was one of the engineers of the Cold War. He perfected the technique of manufacturing a distant but ever-threatening enemy and then creating a constant state of fear by generating false news reports that endlessly re-stated and exagerated the threat.

The stated purpose of Bernay's methods was to give those in power greater control over what he called "the mass mind." It worked well in the 1950s and sadly, it appears to be working quite well today... but maybe not forever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZ8ZvYNlxiM

[Mark]

And I thought this thread was going to be about the rally report music :p

[anthonyvop]

Gee "Tony", you're the only person I've ever encountered on the 'net to defend Goldman Sachs' actions in the meltdown,

I did? When did I do that?


paint the history of motor racing as a scheme to sell newspapers,

I just showed you that the 1st Auto-race was sponsored and organized by a Newspaper. That is a indisputable fact


and forward the notion a corruption-fighting organization is corrupt due to private funding.

Private Funding? HAH. Those Foundations are all left-wing organizations and PACs. And what corruption are they fighting exactly?


You must be in the PR biz...
I was.

[BDunnell]

The creep of corporate blandness into our lives stifles proper discussion and debate. It's one reason why people moan about what they think is 'political correctness' so much. It means people in prominent positions rarely say anything interesting any more, for fear of saying anything out of turn or not toeing the official line. The end result is dishonesty, pure and simple.

It is also resulting in the ruining of language. 'Rolling out a partnered solution'? What the **** does that mean? Look at almost any job advert now and it is couched in absolutely meaningless euphemistic tosh.

[Brown, Jon Brow]

The creep of corporate blandness into our lives stifles proper discussion and debate. It's one reason why people moan about what they think is 'political correctness' so much. It means people in prominent positions rarely say anything interesting any more, for fear of saying anything out of turn or not toeing the official line. The end result is dishonesty, pure and simple.

It is also resulting in the ruining of language. 'Rolling out a partnered solution'? What the **** does that mean? Look at almost any job advert now and it is couched in absolutely meaningless euphemistic tosh.

WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN!!!!! :eek:

[BDunnell]

WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN!!!!! :eek:

I would like to say 'on a secret mission' or 'out on manoeuvres' or some such, but the truth is rather more mundane.

[Mark in Oshawa]

Ben..you have to go with it....bafflegab is an art form....