Media Concentration and Disinformation

September 11, 2001- The Day the World Changed? An eitorial review for the book September 11th, 2001 by Max Frankel: On Tuesday September 11, our world changed forever. The United States was attacked by an unknown terrorist organization. Word of this attack spread instantaneously around the world. Billions of people woke up on September 12 to find that the front page of their local newspaper was devoted to the tragedy of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. People across the world... Read Full Story

see more crazy cat pics THAT MAY NOT EXACTLY BE THE CASE UP HERE IN THE MINNWISSIPPI REGION HOME OF YOUR CORRESPONDENT, even considering the fact that we may be seeing a net drop in the maxima temperature of 15 degrees or thereabouts cf. just yesterday. As in today's maxima likely being only around 55-56 degrees with rain likely in the afterlunch, whereas yesterday it was 72 degrees under sunny, if windy, skies. Still, though, with milder weather affecting areas "up north" as have seen... Read Full Story

"It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear." -General Douglas MacArthur (Speech, 5.15.1951) "Survival Fear is imaginary, but it still exists as a conditioned reaction, not a calculated and considered judgement. It is a memory still close to the surface. It was used by Nazi Germany to infer, through poster... Read Full Story

Wikizines are interactive magazines that anyone can create or edit - and this one is called "Media Concentration and Disinformation". Here you can find fresh voices and respond in real time. Some members write articles about recent news and trends related to the wikizine's topic, others recount relevant personal stories or share their favorite pictures and video clips. Got an interesting idea or story to share with other members of this wikizine? Well, then put on your journalist's cap and... Read Full Story

Exploration of the use of psychoanalytic techniques on the masses which Edward Bernays (a.k.a., The Father of Spin) "invented". Bernays stated: "Human beings could not be trusted to make rational decisions ( if not put under control, the public would overthrow governments: i.e. Bolshevik Revolution etc.) Therefore, mass democracy was wrong and intolerable-the belief that human beings could be trusted to consistently behave rationally. Democratic theorist, Walter Lippman argued that if... Read Full Story