The media, journalism, and propaganda

[Otern]

Time for a thread about journalism, and propaganda techniques used by both the mainstream media, and alternative media.

I used to study journalism at the best institution for journalists in Norway, so I did pick up quite a bit, before realizing the media is dying, and switching to engineering.

First, let's address the images used. And it's way more effective at swaying public opinion than most people know. You can write a pretty balanced and fair article, but still be extremely biased as a whole, by simply using unflattering pictures of the candidate you oppose, while using pretty pictures of the candidate you support.

Pretty much mainstream media used images of Trump looking like a madman, while Clinton looked pretty normal. Then I looked into the alternative right wing media, and how they portrayed Clinton versus Trump. Now she looked like the crazy person, while Trump looked pretty normal.

This went on for the entire campaign, and it hasn't really been mentioned in the media. It's the easiest way to sway opinion, without being subject to criticism, but it's also the easiest way to recognize a bias within the media.

Every news outlet have access to all kinds of images. They could've been neutral, picked neutral pictures of both participants, and try to be as objective as possible. But they didn't. And if you're constantly being bombarded with images of a person looking crazy, you will start to believe he/she is. If you're not aware of how the media actually pick those images out of a pool of all kinds of images. It's an extremely efficient way of getting subconscious support. Most people don't read a lot. At most they read headlines. But everyone looks at images when they skim through a page. And that's why it's so efficient. Especially if you can bombard them with images continuously.

This ties in with the new EU regulation coming, regarding copyright. If only the mainstream media has access to, and can use copyrighted images freely on the internet, they can suppress dissent. The easy trick of going subconscious has been taken away from the opposition, but is still being used by the "trustworthy news agencies".

[Zlaxer]

Clinton is a normal politician - corrupt beyond belief.

Trump is a normal businessman - bribes politicians to get what he wants.

The difference - Trump admitted as much.

Trump won because what's left of dying middle America wanted to stop the globalist agenda...Trump understood this. Hillary wrote off Middle America as old, gray, and insignificant.

The left and its globalist cabal underestimated this - and now are attempting to use the media to inflame everyone to seed discontent.

It's really that simple.

[TheReal_ND]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_emotion

[SuburbanFarmer]

look at it from a marketing perspective, rather than just journalism. News has effectively become clickbait. They need attention, and they use images to get it.

News-for-profit is a broken model, but I don’t know what the alternative would be. It’s impossible for the consumer to demand “objective information”, when they can’t know what that is without the news itself telling them. Markets require consumers to have information about the choice they’re making.

The government can’t be trusted, and The news can’t be trusted, so we’re left in the dark. This is a very unstable state of affairs.

[Kath]

News-for-profit is a broken model, but I don’t know what the alternative would be.

When I was growing up, the news division was never supposed to show a profit. There was a sense of patriotism in the media (4th estate and all that,) and they attempted to bring balance. No profits in that. Everybody trusted Walter.

We'll never get back to that point. It's full on propaganda all the time, now, and the proles keep lapping it up (while they aren't trying to figure out which fast food hamburger they are.)

[SuburbanFarmer]

This is what real journalism would look like now.

[Speaker to Animals]

OMFG that is propaganda you fucking muck.

[SuburbanFarmer]

OMFG that is propaganda you fucking muck.

Propaganda for what, exactly?

[Okeefenokee]

He really fucking did it.

What a fucking dipshit.

[Hwen Hoshino]

This is what real journalism would look like now.

Pretty sure the child death ranking is fucking wrong on 9 zillion elevels.