How Attitude Change Propaganda Works: Hate Group vs NPR vs Ann Coulter

A short lecture on attitude change propaganda, how it works, how subtle it can be and how new media is used to spread it. The comparison of two podcasts, one from a hate group, the other from NPR. At the end I said that Olson was on Flight 73, I mean to say Flight 77.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• NPR
• coulter
• racism
• propaganda
• New
• Media
• podcast

[TalkerOne]

@JSawyer69J Thanks. I know how difficult it is when something that you trust and have a bit of an emotional investment in lets you down. I have a degree in journalism with honors from IU. I was fortunate to have had a single prof who pounded ethics and fairness and soon I realized that very few journalists and PR professionals make any serious attempt to follow the guidelines in a good J-school textbook.

[JSawyer69J]

@JSawyer69J it could have been more precise for the uninformed listener. I'm not convinced it was intentional.

[JSawyer69J]

@TalkerOne Sorry... I wasn't aware of that spin on the story (Terry saying it that way sounds natural and I would expect NPR programs going into depth would be more precise) Listening again, I notice the linguist uses the same language... point taken!

[TalkerOne]

@JSawyer69J Actually, the elite media's repeated spin against Coulter's book was "that she trashed 9/11 widows". If the NPR Professor wanted to show that he could be one step ahead or just a better journalist it would have been easy for him to be more precise, but doing so would have gone against his invented narrative. In short Jsawyer69J, you are reaching and if you have any appreciable degree of intellectual honesty, you are likely aware of it.