Best communication & media studies according to redditors
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We found 265 Reddit comments discussing the best communication & media studies. We ranked the 114 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
Would you like to know more about journalists targeted after 9/11 and the like?
Garry Webb, the Pulitzer prize-winning American investigative journalist who investigated CIA drug running activities related to the Iran Contra affair, who latest killed himself by shooting himself in the head--twice.
Danny Casolaro, the freelance writer who shortly before his death, told people that he was nearly ready to reveal a wide-ranging conspiracy spanning the Inslaw case, Iran-Contra, the alleged October Surprise conspiracy, and the closure of BCCI.
3 days before his death:
>Casolaro's neighbor and long-time housekeeper, Olga, helped Casolaro pack a black leather tote. She remembers him packing a thick sheaf of papers into a dark brown or black briefcase. Casolaro said he was leaving for several days to visit Martinsburg, West Virginia, to meet a source who promised to provide an important missing piece of his story. This was the last time Olga saw him. Olga told The Village Voice that she answered several threatening telephone calls at Casolaro's home that day. She said that one man called at about 9:00 a.m. and said, "I will cut his body and throw it to the sharks". Less than an hour later, a different man said: "Drop dead." There was a third call, but Olga remembered only that no one spoke and that she heard music as though a radio were playing. A fourth call was the same as the third, and a fifth call, this one silent, came later that night.
Philip Marshall, former 767 captain and "special activities" contract pilot during the Iran Contra who wrote The Big Bamboozle: 9/11 and the War on Terror.
Russell Welch, a former investigator for the Arkansas State Police Department who opened a letter containing military grade anthrax after having sounded the alarm on CIA drug smuggling activities.
Barry Jennings, the former Deputy Director of Emergency Services Department who claimed to witness multiple explosions inside WTC7 as well as "stepping over bodies". There were zero recorded casualties from the official report. Barry dropped dead 2 days before NIST released their final report on the collapse of WTC7, 7 years after having ommitting any mention of it in the 9/11 Commission report.
[David Kelly](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kelly_(weapons_expert), the UN weapons inspector for Iraq in 2003.
>British Prime Minister Tony Blair's government set up the Hutton Inquiry, a public inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death. The inquiry concluded that Kelly had committed suicide, with the cause of death as "haemorrhage due to incised wounds of the left wrist" in combination with "coproxamol ingestion and coronary artery atherosclerosis". Lord Hutton also decided that evidence related to the death, including the post-mortem report and photographs of the body, should remain classified for 70 years.[3]
Deborah Palfrey, also known as the "DC Madam, operated a "female escort" agency, who had reportedly serviced many state department officials, such as Dick Cheney, as well as certain Muslim gentlemen.
>In an interview on the Alex Jones show in July 2007, Palfrey explicitly stated, "I'm not planning to commit suicide" and made clear her motivation to present her case at trial, saying, "I plan on exposing the government in ways that I do not think they want me to expose them".[32]
David Wherley, the former commander of the 113th Fighter Wing at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington, also known as the "Capital Guardians", and also the man who gave the order to scramble fighter jets over the nation's capital on the morning of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, dies in "the deadliest rail crash in the history of the capital's Metrorail system"
William Colby, the former director of the CIA who was replaced by George HW Bush in the Halloween Massacre and later died of a heart attack/boating accident/suicide.
I encourage everyone to read this book. Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky he explains detail about how the media is changing everything.
Yanna Krupnikov (YK):Much of the research in political science focuses on the idea that people aren’t likely to change their minds Even though many scholars (see for example Lodge and Taber’s [book] (https://www.amazon.com/Rationalizing-Cambridge-Studies-Political-Psychology/dp/052117614X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1478273033&sr=8-1&keywords=lodge+and+taber)) find this in many contexts, but not all people are immune to persuasion.
First – and most obviously – people who have weak opinions are most open to new information and changing views. But its more than just a weak opinion. In their [book] (https://www.amazon.com/Persuadable-Voter-Issues-Presidential-Campaigns/dp/0691143366/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1478273091&sr=8-1&keywords=hillygus+and+shields), Hillygus and Shields show that people who have positions that are in some way unusual for their partisan group (so, for example Republicans who hold a liberal position on one issue or Democrats who hold a conservative position on one issue) are also more likely to change their minds.
Your question is about individual characteristics, but there is also the question of context. Some people are more or less open to persuasion depending on the context they are in. In my own research with Eric Groenendyk, I've shown that once you put someone into a very combative, political context, their “shields” go up and they become much more likely to dismiss a lot of information. In contrast, you may find people to be more open to political information in a situation that is less combative and less political.
Similarly, Bashir’s [work] (http://www.psych.utoronto.ca/users/lockwood/PDF/Bashir%202013.pdf) in psychology suggests that people are resist \ information transmitted by those who call themselves “activists.”
So, what this may suggest people are more likely to resist information from those who have a long history of trying to persuade them or a long history of combative behavior but may be more welcoming of new information from those that they do not necessarily view as having purely political goals.
Of course, some people are closed to persuasion no matter what, but for others context/persuader may play a key role.
I can't wait for the upcoming chain of headlines.
The recommended section is just a treasure trove of amazing garbage:
Ben Shapiro
Mike Thernovich
Vox Day
This dumbass
The_Alinsky_fearer has logged on
Trump as a soviet worker
Sharia law is coming to your chipolte
The adventures of Hitler
Scott Adams: Failing is actually success
Give him a copy of Manufacturing Consent. It pulled me back from the edge at around his age.
I think the problem is at that age you start to get a sense that the media is manipulative as fuck. But the only people saying that loudly enough for young people to hear are the Tommy Robinsons of the world.
We desperately need some loud leftist voices.
What you just described is how I read the "low barrier to entry". That they aren't selected based on their ability to document sincere insight the world, but their ability to conform to the filters that manufacture consent.
Though maybe this is an epistemological error made given that I have Pete Coffin's recent episode on meritocracy on the brain.
I'm glad this study is getting some visibility, because people seem to be largely unaware of the explicitly white supremacist history of the fight against entitlements.
Welfare programs created under the New Deal were intensely prejudiced toward African Americans and immigrants. They contained many mechanism for states to segregate and deny access to these programs for minority groups.
What killed the welfare programs in the US was the civil rights movement which guranteed somewhat equal access to public services, including welfare programs, to non white people. Welfare reform and entitlement reform has always been first and foremost anoit perpetuating white supremacy.
https://academic.udayton.edu/race/04needs/welfare01b.htm
https://www.amazon.com/Why-Americans-Hate-Welfare-Communication/dp/0226293645
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0393328511/
What wealth transfer are they talking about?
Chinese people have worked hard for the wealth they have created. It was not transferred from the U.S.
Now, technology is a different thing. A lot of technology was transferred to China and it is basically the status quo now.
This has a precedent in history. The United States has historically transferred technology to its enemies: Germany, Vietnam and the USSR. This is now happening again.
If you aren't already aware, this evidence, research and journalism was all done by Greg Palast and his team.
Greg Palast is an exiled American Journalist, who is forced to publish articles through the BBC and through his book publisher 'Plume'.
I recommend his wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Palast) and the book (the new revision) that I read (which contains this reference research among MUCH more, from the 2004 elections until current situations with OPEC): http://www.amazon.ca/Armed-Madhouse-Greg-Palast/dp/0452288312/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1220824660
The end.
Manufacturing consent is as relevant as ever.
Sadly, most journalists seem to read it and think it's a text on best practices.
here is a book from 1992 - outlines how computer voting machines were compromised to steal an election in Florida.
http://www.amazon.com/Votescam-Stealing-James-M-Collier/dp/0963416308/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1311460998&sr=8-1
The reason I went into journalism and have a strong interest in health journalism is because of reporter John Stossel and his great work covering the issue of consumer scams in the late 1990s and 2000's. His book Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity spends a chapter on the issue of chiropractors and basically lays out that with his research and under-cover work that as far as he could tell then: its mostly a scam.
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The book is a little dated (published 2006) but it really impacted me on how good journalism can break through to hard truths and point out bonkers things in society.
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Its a quick read and I recommend it to you guys!
Technocracy is here. Check out Technocracy Rising by Patrick Wood.
In the heat of the Great Depression during the 1930s, prominent scientists and engineers proposed a utopian energy-based economic system called Technocracy that would be run by those same scientists and engineers instead of elected politicians. Although this radical movement lost momentum by 1940, it regained status when it was conceptually adopted by the elitist Trilateral Commission (co-founded by Zbigniew Brzezinski and David Rockefeller) in 1973 to be become its so-called “New International Economic Order.”
Five Reasons Why You Should Read Technocracy Rising
What you're ignoring is that the gravest insults under which you suffer are perpetrated by those authorities you deem "insufficient". Petty slights in everyday life pale in insignificance compared to the systemic crimes against your rights by the powerful (and are in fact to a large extent caused by these systemic frustrations), and a system like this would do nothing but grant them unprecedented powers to expand these crimes.
Want some literature? Begin with the obvious, Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World. Next, read up on complex systems theory, maybe take a course or at least have a look through some of the videos here. Having some insight into behavioural economics and power dynamics is very useful.
Then read Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman, and then Necessary Illusions by the same Chomsky ("Understanding Power - The Essential Chomsky" is also a good, but long, one) for an overview of the mentioned systemic crimes by those in power, and for a general understanding of how power operates on large scales. Many will discount Chomsky due to his political leanings, I think that's a huge error. The way he argues and presents relies heavily on actual examples and real-world comparisons, and these are useful even if you fundamentally disagree with his political stance (I personally belong on the left of the spectrum, but I do not subscribe to his anarcho-libertarianism or anarcho-syndicalist stances). I also recommend "Austerity - The History of a Dangerous Idea" by economist Mark Blyth for this purpose.
Finally, Extra Credits has a good introduction to the concept of gamification with the playlist here. At the end, see this video for an introduction to the actual Sesame Credits system in the gamification perspective.
The field is inherently cross-disciplinary, and "specialisation" in the field is almost a misnomer since the only way to get there, really, is to have a broad (if not deep) understanding of multiple fields, including psychology, pedagogy, linguistics, game design theory, design theory in general, economics, management and leadership theory, complex systems and network analysis, and now it seems politics as well. Some gamification specialists operate in much narrower fields and so do not need this broad an approach (generally, most people in the field operate in teams that contain most of this knowledge), and some of the fields incorporate aspects from the others so you won't have to explicitly study all of them (pedagogy, for example, is in many ways a branch of applied psychology, and game design theory must include lessons on psychology and complex systems).
Edit: Added Amazon links to the mentioned books.
Ask and ye shall receive.
Gnostic Globalists / Fascists
You'll have to search for these in google by title + youtube. Sorry, the links didn't copypasta over.
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Relativism
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Mythologenesis
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Singularity agenda or Identity Apotheosis agenda
Thanateros
Collectivism and the death of the individual
Big Brother / Big Sister
The book Technocracy Rising is a good read regarding the history of technocracy and how we're being led into what u/Working_ATM said.
Someone made a sub this time around to document the widespread absurdity:
/r/BernieBlindness
It's hard to not conclude the media aren't a corrupt monolith.
EDIT:
Noam Chomsky concluded this long ago:
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Noam Chomsky Lecture with introduction by Bernie Sanders
It's always been like this. If you're interested check out:
Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times by R. McChesney
Necessary Illusions : Thought Control in Democratic Societies by N.Chomsky
Our Unfree Press: 100 Years of Radical Media Criticism by R.McChesney
Beyond Hypocrisy: Decoding the News in an Age of Propaganda by E.Herman
Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media by M.Parenti
Dollarocracy: How the Money and Media Election Complex is Destroying America by R.McChesney
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by E.Herman and N.Chomsky
Constructing Public Opinion by J.Lewis
The More You Watch the Less You Know by D.Schecter
The Political Economy of Media: Enduring Issues, Emerging Dilemmas by R.McChesney
Gender, Race, and Class in Media: A Critical Reader by Dines and Humez
Beyond Consumer Capitalism: Media and the Limits to Imagination by J.Lewis
Propaganda by E.Bernays
Make-Believe Media: The Politics of Entertainment by M.Parenti
When News Lies by D.Schecter
Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda by N.Chomsky
Will the Revolution Be Televised?: A Marxist Analysis of the Media by J.Molenyeux
All these guys have youtube lectures if you aren't much of a reader. Alternatively check out the following documentaries:
Manufacturing Consent
The Myth of the Liberal Media
The Power of Nightmares
Psywar
Class Dismissed: how TV frames the working class
The Power Principle
Project Censored: Is the Press Really Free?
Or you could even do a course in media literacy and watch Sut Jhally's lecture series on Media, Public Relations and Propaganda.
Here is the book:
https://www.amazon.com/Big-Bamboozle-11-War-Terror/dp/1468094580/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1525111053&sr=8-1&keywords=the+big+bamboozle
I wouldn't pin your hopes on the BBC; they manipulate the news to their own agenda as much as anyone else. Here's a good book on it - https://www.amazon.co.uk/BBC-Myth-Public-Service/dp/1784784826/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&qid=1479236347&sr=8-12&keywords=Bbc
There's a great book you might enjoy:
The author, Jonathan Kay, is the editor of Canada's The National Post newspaper.
My 2¢: the Euro is a very flawed currency. The Euro block is not an optimal currency area (see the Wiki for the criteria outlining what makes a currency area optimal).
But worse than that, all Euro block countries are subject to the Maastricht Treaty. This treaty limits the debt and deficits of member nations. Now, this may sound like a good thing, but in times of financial crisis, it's useful for governments to be able to stimulate their economies with deficit spending(what is called a Keynesian stimulus).
As Greg Palast wrote in Armed Madhouse:
> [Robert Mundell, the architect of the Euro,] explained how it will work: “Monetary discipline forces fiscal discipline on the politicians as well.” What he means is that every Euro nation must adhere to strict limits on borrowing (no more than 60% of GDP) and on deficits (no more than 3% of the government budgets). Furthermore, nations will no longer have their own central banks printing money. That’s all quite extraordinary, really. No congress of a European nation may call on the key tools used to pull a nation out of a recession (increased government spending to create jobs, lowering interest rates to boost investment, printing more money to create demand through more liquidity).
> [...] If a nation can’t control its own interest rates, borrowing, or money supply, how can it keep up employment? Answer: by stealing the jobs from their Euro neighbors, luring industry away by cutting out rules and slashing business taxes.
Awesome article.
For more, here's a decent documentary based on Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent:
>It's basically an institutional analysis of the major media, what we call a propaganda model[...] they do this in all sorts of ways: by selection of topics, by distribution of concerns, by emphasis and framing of issues, by filtering of information, by bounding of debate within certain limits. They determine, they select, they shape, they control, they restrict -- in order to serve the interests of dominant, elite groups in the society.
That was right out of Manufacturing Consent last night, if you ask me.
In no specific order: The Dictator's Handbook: presents a realist perspective on international and intra-national politics, specifically it presents a real-world analysis of politics through the lens of Selectorate Theory.
Something from Chomsky, I'd say Manufacturing Consent or Understanding Power or both. Chomsky has written about 40 books so it's impossible to keep up with him and you may end up disagreeing on substantial points, but I think he's probably the most important to read because he situates his political analysis outside the invisible constraints of American political culture, and American political culture tends to be naive about the goals and methods of government and other institutions.
Watch this CGP Grey video and consider how it applies to political parties, political discourse, and political activism. Afterwards you should either read the meme wikipedia page or Dawkins' book The Selfish Gene.
Looking back I notice all my recommendations circle around studying politics itself as a phenomena, I don't know if that's what you meant but you might enjoy it. If you're more wondering which political stances you should take, decide that by which policies have empirical evidence of working and base your decisions on how robust you think the evidence is.
They had the story from an NSA informant (actually a FISA court lawyer). They were told by the Bush administration that "the terrorists would win" if they published it, so they buried it.
http://www.npr.org/2014/06/05/319233332/new-york-times-editor-losing-snowden-scoop-really-painful
If you want a better idea of the timeline on it, Frontline covered it pretty well.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/united-states-of-secrets/
If you want a better idea why the New York Times would cow-tow to the White House like that, Manufacturing Consent does a pretty good job of explaining the forces at play here (access, flack, anti-terror hysteria).
Rich Media, Poor Democracy-- Communication Politics in Dubious Times, by Robert McChesney, address this issue directly.
A corollary is that their message is simple and visceral- fear. That sort of idea is much easier to propagate than complexity and trade-offs, regardless of truth.
Would you like to know more?
Garry Webb, the Pulitzer prize-winning American investigative journalist who investigated CIA drug running activities related to the Iran Contra affair, who committed suicide by shooting himself in the head--twice.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Webb
Russell Welch, a former investigator for the Arkansas State Police Department who opened a letter containing military grade anthrax after having sounded the alarm on CIA drug smuggling activities.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Welch
Danny Casolaro, the freelance writer who shortly before his death, told people that he was nearly ready to reveal a wide-ranging conspiracy spanning the Inslaw case, Iran-Contra, the alleged October Surprise conspiracy, and the closure of BCCI.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Casolaro
3 days before his death:
Casolaro's neighbor and long-time housekeeper, Olga, helped Casolaro pack a black leather tote. She remembers him packing a thick sheaf of papers into a dark brown or black briefcase. Casolaro said he was leaving for several days to visit Martinsburg, West Virginia, to meet a source who promised to provide an important missing piece of his story. This was the last time Olga saw him. Olga told The Village Voice that she answered several threatening telephone calls at Casolaro's home that day. She said that one man called at about 9:00 a.m. and said, "I will cut his body and throw it to the sharks". Less than an hour later, a different man said: "Drop dead." There was a third call, but Olga remembered only that no one spoke and that she heard music as though a radio were playing. A fourth call was the same as the third, and a fifth call, this one silent, came later that night.
David Kelly, the UN weapons inspector for Iraq in 2003.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kelly_(weapons_expert
British Prime Minister Tony Blair's government set up the Hutton Inquiry, a public inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death. The inquiry concluded that Kelly had committed suicide, with the cause of death as "haemorrhage due to incised wounds of the left wrist" in combination with "coproxamol ingestion and coronary artery atherosclerosis". Lord Hutton also decided that evidence related to the death, including the post-mortem report and photographs of the body, should remain classified for 70 years.[3]
Deborah Palfrey, also known as the "DC Madam, operated a "female escort" agency, who had reportedly serviced many state department officials, such as Dick Cheney, as well as certain Muslim gentlemen.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Jeane_Palfrey
In an interview on the Alex Jones show in July 2007, Palfrey explicitly stated, "I'm not planning to commit suicide" and made clear her motivation to present her case at trial, saying, "I plan on exposing the government in ways that I do not think they want me to expose them".[32]
Barry Jennings, the former Deputy Director of Emergency Services Department who claimed to witness multiple explosions inside WTC7 as well as "stepping over people". There were zero recorded casualties in the official report. Dropped dead 2 days before the release of the Final Report of the Collapse of WTC7 in 2008.
http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Barry_Jennings
http://barryjenningsmystery.blogspot.com/
Philip Marshall, former 767 captain and "special activities" contract pilot during the Iran Contra who wrote The Big Bamboozle: 9/11 and the War on Terror
http://www.amazon.com/The-Big-Bamboozle-War-Terror/product-reviews/1468094580/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1
http://www.larouchepub.com/other/book_reviews/2013/4011bamboozle_murder.html
"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
David Wherley, the former commander of the 113th Fighter Wing at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington, also known as the "Capital Guardians",and also the man who gave the order to scramble fighter jets over the nation's capital on the morning of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, dies in "the deadliest rail crash in the history of the capital's Metrorail system"
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124581129913745441.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/113th_Wing
William Colby, the former director of the CIA who was replaced by George HW Bush in the Halloween Massacre and later died of a heart attack/boating accident/suicide.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Colby
Obama’s ‘kill list’ critic found dead in New York City
http://www.dailypaul.com/270064/obama-s-kill-list-critic-found-dead-in-new-york-city
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” ― Aristotle, Metaphysics
The Law by Frederic Bastiat (awesome, short, soooo many quotable quotes)
Healing Our World by Dr. Mary Ruwart (old version available free)
Haven't read any of his books (have listened to many lectures and radio show), but something by Harry Browne should do quite nicely. I've heard great things about Why Government Doesn't Work
Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity - John Stossel (do check out his excellent Fox Business show "Stossel" on hulu.com, and look for his old 20/20 specials on libertarianism - they're fantastic)
good economists: Peter Schiff, Walter Williams, Thomas Sowell, Walter Block
You might be better off waiting til you get more comfortable with libertarianism, but G. Edward Griffin's Creature From Jekyll Island is a must read. It's more about the monetary system and the Federal Reserve than libertarianism in general though.
I haven't read anything that makes a good argument against libertarianism, but can recommend a guy who makes a seemingly good argument against capitalism and for socialism - Michael Parenti. I haven't read any of his pro-socialist books (but have one on foreign policy called The Terrorist Trap which is quite good and very short. Libertarians and socialists tend to agree on not inviting war and not waging war). But I have listened to his pro-socialist lectures - they're well delivered and impassioned and a person who didn't know any better would easily be tempted. They're worth listening to to use his arguments and twist them to actually make the case FOR libertarianism. He'll use some faulty facts/data that leftists typically do such as "Hoover was an ardent free-market advocate and we can blame him and capitalism for causing the Great Depression" (we can blame him for the depression all right (prolonging it, to be specific), not b/c he was a capitalist but b/c he really started all the policies that FDR continued when he got into office)
This book is decent It also has a chapter on Ayn Rand objectivism as a cult.
Also see another book:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Believing-Brain-Conspiracies-How-Construct/dp/1250008808/ref=pd_sim_b_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=128C3144EKDPV7SQPYRY
Among the Truthers is also not bad.
There's something about it... it fits with the anti-establishment mindset, it fills a desire for parsimonious explanations for complex problems. The young people especially who have bought into this anti-fed thinking... it worries me. I know the Dark Ages are called that for different reasons, but I worry we are moving into another intellectual dark age... critical thinking is not encouraged, no one reads anymore - they take their talking points from Twitter or YouTube. It's all glib catchphrases and everything is open to question. Economics is especially bad for it because it as a science has let us down so much lately. It's made worse by the fact that politicians with specific axes to grind have selectively grabbed chunks of economic theory to support their own beliefs, and academic economists don't do a great job at defending themselves.
As an aside, you might find this book interesting. Many of these theories/worldviews fit together and are held by the same types of people.
I'm quite into reading politics related books so if you like I can recommend a couple that I'd buy myself :P
This book by Naomi Klein is FANTASTIC
I quite liked the look of this one as well
A really interesting book on Political Theory
If he doesn't like Chomsky, he doesn't like politics!
Can never have too much Chomsky!
Maybe a bit o' Lincoln too?
That’s not surprising. Propaganda works. There’s a book you might want to check out called Manufacturing Consent that explains why the media pushes certain ideas even if those ideas are lies. The book was written in the 80s but it’s just as true today as it was then.
https://www.amazon.com/Manufacturing-Consent-Political-Economy-Media-ebook/dp/B0055PJ4R0
https://www.amazon.com/QAnon-Invitation-Great-Awakening-WWG1WGA/dp/1942790139
All mass media has been biased since it's inception. Partisan bias is one single facet of the biases of mass media and shouldn't be taken as the only one. As per Chomsky:
A great animated version of this is available here.
No, no, you have it all wrong. Hillary sacrifices babies to the devil because she’s a witch. You can’t eat a sacrificial baby; that’s just wrong.
"Among the Truthers: A Journey Through America's Conspiracist Underground" by Jonathan Kay is pretty great. It tries to understand conspiracy theorists' motivations and reasons for thinking the way they do in a non-mocking way, as many of them (9/11 truthers in particular) are actually pretty intelligent and patriotic, wishing for the rule of law to prevail over whoever they believe really did 9/11.
http://www.amazon.com/Among-Truthers-Cognitive-Underworld-American/dp/0062004816
Also: "The Great Derangement: War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire" by Matt Taibbi has a section about his time immersed in the 9/11 truther movement, followed by a pretty biting and hilarious analysis of the fundamental logical failures that underpin all 9/11 conspiracy thinking.
http://www.amazon.ca/The-Great-Derangement-Terrifying-Politics/dp/0385520344
There is a good argument to be made that America's media system is well integrated into the problems you are describing.
Noam Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent and Robert McChesney's Rich Media Poor Democracy are good places to start to get a handle on this point of view. Brace for heavier, academic reads, but well worth it if you want to understand the media's influence on the problems you are describing.
Someone above made a point that the things you are describing are nothing new in America. One way get an idea of this unfortunate truth is Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States. Eye-opening and inspirational.
I don't read much non-fiction but I really enjoyed Ghost Plane by Stephen Grey. It's an interesting and super detailed account of the CIA's Rendition program.
Here’s some books:
• 9 books
-most of these can be found in video form on YouTube
• understanding power
• manufacturing consent kindle (couldn’t find it as a pdf)
Chomsky is a great read, he also has some great lectures on YouTube. The reason that only a tiny minority knows him is because of his lack of appearance in mainstream media (in my opinion). He summarizes it greatly in this video:
Noam Chomsky- concision
anyone surprised by this should read this and this and later this
> When I wrote a book about conspiracy theories a few years back, I found there is a rich lore of anti-Baconian sentiment among many radical thinkers.
[This is a fascinating read.] (http://www.amazon.com/Among-Truthers-Americas-Conspiracist-Underground/dp/0062004816)
The next book I would recommend is Robert W. McChesney's book Rich Media, Poor Democracy.
It's not the most modern book, it came out in 2000. But I've always recommended it as a follow-up to Manufacturing Consent.
Phillip Marshall was a former CIA pilot that was murdered with his family for being a Truther, do you fear for your life?
http://www.amazon.com/The-Big-Bamboozle-War-Terror/dp/1468094580
http://www.infowars.com/cia-killed-phillip-marshall-for-leaking-911-secrets-dr-kevin-barrett/
sounds very familiar to what happened to this man
http://www.amazon.com/The-Big-Bamboozle-War-Terror/dp/1468094580
There is an AMAZING book that explains how "Payola" works called "Rich Media, Poor Democracy". Basically, record labels pay radio stations to play at least X number of songs from every album they produce, regardless. Katie Perry sucks. But it doesn't matter, her label cut a deal before she was even famous. Read the book, it will blow your mind.
http://www.amazon.com/Rich-Media-Poor-Democracy-Communication/dp/1565846346/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1344960029&sr=1-1&keywords=rich+media+poor+democracy
There have been double standards when it comes to requiring the fbi to prove guilt, and a general unwillingness to extend the same level of skepticism extended to non-government conspiracy theories to theories forwarded by the police without evidence.
I'm not saying that this proves that anyone here is a shill. I don't want to throw around any specific accusations like that because it's impossible to tell and I know there are plenty of people here who are honest skeptics (though they may fall prey to double standards like I do sometimes).
However people here are accusing me of being a shill, and when i ask who would pay me to say what I'm saying as infowars wouldn't hire me because i'm a leftist and think alex jones is a double agent, i'm met with silence and downvotes.
And some of the same people that are accusing me of a being a shill are also accusing me of thinking other people are shills. This, despite never having leveled a specific accusation myself, and limiting my claim to /r/conspiracy at the time.
All of this centers around a post I made about shills being present in r/conspiracy and forwarding false conspiracy theories. That is, that there are shills in r/conspiracy responsible for a lot of the dumb theories r/conspiratard likes to make fun of, whose goal is to discredit conspiracy theory from within.
The particular claim I made was that "how" theories about 9/11 (controlled demolition w/ the probable exception of wtc7, lasers, mini-nukes, no-planes, etc.) were disinformation designed to distract from the who and why theories (some of the evidence for which is here), the primary one being that the cia and alqaeda have been working together.
Some people in r/conspiracy have no problem accepting that people on "their" side could be shills.
I think that if there are shills, they are playing on us-them divisions, and it's worked to play /r/conspiracy and /r/conspiratard against each other beautifully.
If there aren't, there are a lot of people using self-serving definitions of conspiracy theory to maintain a double standard with respect to what they are skeptical of.
The notion that welfare promotes a culture of entitlement is a myth, perpetuated by century old American stereotypes of black laziness.
Would highly recommend the seminal Why Americans Hate Welfare. Upshot: the only reasonable explanation for why Americans don't like welfare but like other social programs is their (incorrect) perception that the majority of the recipients are black.
The Soviet Union was only a military force because American companies sold them the tools and equipment to make their weapons. Until then, they were, literally, mostly dirt-scraping peasants.
Maybe this will help. Hell, here's the book for free.
http://www.amazon.com/Technocracy-Rising-Trojan-Global-Transformation/dp/0986373907
Having done opponent research and fundraising for state democrats in Chicago, I can tell you that without a doubt, the smaller the election, the better it is for the majority party. In non presidential elections or any local elections, people that do vote will vote the party line or according to the name they recognize. Chicago is a very segregated city. If the district/ward is primarily Polish or German, having a Polish or German name is very necessary to be elected as a judge or alderman. In the Irish wards, Flanagan, O'Malley, etc. are just as powerful. Because people often only go to vote for one position, they will often go with whatever feels comfortable or good for the others they don't recognize.
As to your contention that abstention is a good thing, it really is not unless there is a consequence for abstention such as no candidates being elected. During a modern campaign, the goal is to get the people who have voted before to show up at the polls and then try to swing the undecideds to your side. The other goal is to lower the turnout for your opponent. While most people think it is about motivating people to vote in general, such a strategy is almost guaranteed to lose unless you have unlimited funds. A good book to read is The Race to 270. It covers the 2000 and 2004 campaigns and demonstrates the change from macro campaigns to micro or targeted campaigns. (I spent my whole undergrad studying campaigns). By pinpointing specific areas with higher concentrations of voter turnout, a campaign can spend their money effectively. Imagine sabermetrics in baseball, but for political campaigns. It's why Bush could win 2000 elections by choosing very specific Florida counties that were Red in past elections to recount (Gore failed to realize the strategy until it was too late) and winning the 2004 election without carrying the national vote. I have already gone on too much, but essentially Karl Rove figured out that certain issues and targeting certain groups was much more effective than trying to rally people to vote.
What this all means is that there are always going to be a certain number of people who vote for each side and then a certain number of voters that are undecideds. It is much cheaper to focus on your base and those voting undecided than to galvanize new people to take time to vote and vote for you. Therefore the incentive is not to come up with good ideas, but to pander to the known voters. Its why the Tea Party had such a strong presence in 2010 despite being so small. They were loud and they voted.
So abstaining without consequence is a bad thing because it only reinforces the campaign strategies that are the most successful and cost effective.
If you are interested in campaign and voting politics check out these books:
Get Out The Vote: How to Increase Voter Turnout. They do a great breakdown of cost/benefits of specific campaign strategies like mailers, meet and greets, TV spots, etc.
The Persuadable Voter: Wedge Issues in Presidential Campaigns. They do a good job of defining and tracking wedge issues (e.g. abortion, guns, etc.) and how modern campaigns use them to split the opponents base or unify their base. One of the key arguments is that it is often in one or both sides' best interest to not solve a wedge issue. It's fascinating in light of Obamacare and the way that has become a wedge issue.
tl;dr It is cheaper and more effective to target areas with large concentrations of voters than to try to persuade non-voters to vote in the first place. I also recommend PS 411 for any current or future Illini undergrads.
They do write books though.
These books are not entirely directly related to 9/11, but they are a good primer. To understand what happened during, one is better understanding what happened before, during and after:
> Terror is a fabrication, read the following books:
Satanic Purses
Ghost Plane: CIA Rendition Flights to Blacksites
Terror Factory: The FBI's Manufactured War on Terror
This book may be of help, it is quite an interesting read
It may have been wacky to see someone act like that, but it's a prevailing attitude in the United States. I was doing some research on New Deal politics and found the book Why Americans Hate Welfare and it turns out that among other things such as media manipulation, there has been a calculated strategy to turn American's attitudes against the poor, in order to make it easier to defund social safety nets.
It's generally if a particular issue touches your life in a direct personal way, such as the way agricultural policy affects farmers. Partisan attachments are very deeply held, symbolic, emotional, and hard to change -- so for anything to trump that it usually has to be deeply personal as well. But that's probably only for one or two issues, at most.
There's also a concept of "cross-pressures," which basically means some voters belong to multiple social groups that pull them in conflicting directions, such as black Republicans or Baptist Democrats, and some research says these are the people who are most likely to buck their party's issue positions. But although that's independent of partisan identification, it's probably not what you meant by "independent opinions" -- it's just dependent on social pressures by groups other than parties.
More recently, there was a book by Sunshine Hillygus and Todd Shields that re-interprets "cross-pressured" as voters who disagree with their own party on one or more issues. However, IIRC they are primarily concerned with the effects of this incongruence rather than the cause of it.
I'm not sure there's much research about what could make somebody a truly independent, rational, critical thinking, engaged, citizen who makes decisions about all issues for him/herself without deferring in any way to group or partisan attachments. Many people sincerely believe that describes them, but empirically it's difficult to find a whole lot of evidence for that at all.
https://www.amazon.com/Wall-Street-Bolshevik-Revolution-Capitalists/dp/190557035X
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https://www.amazon.com/Best-Enemy-Money-Can-Buy/dp/1939438233
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https://www.amazon.com/East-minus-West-zero-862-1962/dp/B0007EGOLI
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Marshall and Mao, shutting out CKS
Then you have a weird fetish for everything Trump - repeat a lie long enough its the Truth, all publicity is good publicity ! https://www.amazon.co.uk/Manufacturing-Consent-Political-Economy-Media/dp/0099533111
Hmm... I must say I take exactly the opposite stance on Noam and Free speech that you do – he always strikes me as a leader and champion in such things.
Among many many other things he actually ended up putting his carrier (and possibly life) at risk defending free speech in the Faurisson affair.
One of Noam's most famous quotes is "If you believe in freedom of speech, you believe in freedom of speech for views you don't like. Stalin and Hitler, for example, were dictators in favor of freedom of speech for views they liked only. If you're in favor of freedom of speech, that means you're in favor of freedom of speech precisely for views you despise." (from his book Manufacturing Consent which deals with EXACTLY what gamer gate is dealing with: calling out a corrupt political elite controlling the narratives that come out of the mass media as to manipulate the populous into otherwise unpopular views.)
But I do like to understand where people are coming from as I might learn something. Could you let me know how you reached that Stance on Noam? ...because I am pretty surprised and confused by it.
Article Former airline pilot and conspiracy theorist 'shot dead his two teenage children and his dog before turning the gun on himself'
Book The Big Bamboozle: 9/11 and the War on Terror
Movie Unthinkable
Not believing the CIA/mass media/whoever != believing Trump.
Here's something you should probably read.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0055PJ4R0/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
Not a well known book outside of the UK I think but brilliantly simple and impactful. Has been a cornerstone in my view of media along with Manufacturing Consent and Propaganda. Once you've gone through those you'll probably be more inclined to focus on your own life.
I'm pretty sure a book is a source and generally a highly regarded source in both media and academia.
Not obscure - The BBC: Myth of a Public Service https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1784784826/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_5OAPDbFGME8F6
Amazon have it good to go for your kindle or soft and hardback books are available.
If you think I'm going to disseminate a 288 page book on the subject for you, I don't think you've got much chance.
Appreciate the post fellow Patriot!
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Terrorist Recognition Handbook: A Practitioner's Manual for Predicting and Identifying Terrorist Activities
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I agree he got carried away in this piece. As I read through it really struck me how poorly written it was - a lot of hyperbole and insinuation. After watching this speech he gave in 2007 (worth watching, BTW) I went out and bought his book Armed Madhouse and read the whole thing. What I came away from it with was that he does indeed have the data to back up what he's saying, but he's too dramatic about how he's saying it.
In the case of the article OP linked to it seems he used all of his dramatic speech and didn't really nail down the concrete elements that a reader needs to know. I suppose if he'd had an entire chapter's space to ramble maybe he would've gotten around to explaining it better. Or maybe I'm just enough of a discerning reader that I was able to get through his book and pull the relevant info from the irrelevant fluff around it. I do remember there were passages where I thought to myself, "Come on, pull it together."
The funny/sad thing was ... I read the article thinking about how poorly written it was, then scrolled up to see who the author was, and thought, "Oh Greg, why'd you have to do that? You're just making yourself look bad now."
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https://twitter.com/thebigbamboozle#!/thebigbamboozle
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20130215
California Community Mourns Deaths Of Teenage Siblings
http://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/article/Calif-community-mourns-deaths-of-teenage-siblings-4250045.php#ixzz2K2WezFxZ
"Sean Marshall, the teens' mother and Phillip Marshall's estranged wife, was traveling in Turkey at the time of the shootings, Callaway said. The sheriff's department notified her and she was expected back by late Sunday or early Monday, Hewitt said."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2275258/Phillip-Marshall-Former-airline-pilot-conspiracy-theorist-shot-dead-teenage-children-dog-turning-gun-himself.html#axzz2KGbenrMx
http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130204/A_NEWS/302040310
http://twitter.yfrog.com/nqv2lvcyyyejstnkddnowhcqz?sa=0
http://www.santabarbaraview.com/phillip-marshall-wrote-about-a-conspiracy-was-he-victim-of-one4254252/ (link scrubbed)
http://beforeitsnews.com/9-11-and-ground-zero/2013/02/911-researcher-found-dead-wrote-book-implicating-bush-administration-in-the-911-attacks-2439534.html
Disgusting. Also far too common. Further reading : Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent
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Very related and, frankly, required reading: Manufacturing Consent
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Crazy stuff
Nuclear weapons are a hoax perpetuated by the MIC and mass media.
Chem/bio weapons are real.
I expect a lot of downvotes for stating this, and I don’t care.
Do your own research.
Edit: Added a link for all the shills who are in disbelief. Enjoy your fear shills.
https://www.amazon.com/Death-Object-Exploding-Nuclear-Weapons-ebook/dp/B071NGKY17/ref=nodl_
Maybe there is no problem and the big bad "nuclear scare" is a bogeyman invented during the Cold War (a psychological war which involved mass conditioning of the world's population).
Recent samples collected by researchers from Kelp Watch and Cal State Long Beach professors have determined that no detectable radiation has entered the ecosystem along the West Coast since the disaster, which occurred in 2011.
Once again, testing finds Alaska seafood free of Fukushima radiation
Physicist: There was no Fukushima nuclear disaster. The terrible toll from Japan's tsunami came from the wave, not radiation
The Trillion Dollar Nuclear Weapons Fraud - Just like Germans couldn't question the Hitler/Nazi story, Japanese couldn't question the Hiroshima/Nagasaki story; punishment was imprisonment and execution
All information about exploding atomic bombs radiating people to death since August 1945 is propaganda invented by Franklin D. Roosevelt, (Harry S. Truman) and Joseph V. Stalin! It is just a 72 years old example of Fake News to scare.
Air Force drops non-nuclear 'mother of all bombs' in Afghanistan. Produces a devastating above-ground explosion that sends a mushroom cloud roiling high in the sky. (nuclear winter is coming!!! but no fear about countries unleashing hundreds of MOABs on each other? isn't MOABageddon upon us???)
The War Was Won Before Hiroshima—And the Generals Who Dropped the Bomb Knew It
Some Reasons Why I Don't Believe Nuclear Weapons Exist
North Korea drops nuclear bomb on US in disturbing propaganda video (north korea wants to scare silly americans, media follows suit and reports widely)
Quora - How realistic is the theory that nuclear weapons are a hoax as the referenced film implies? (lots of shilly answers)
Book - The Nuclear Hoax: Kennedy, Khrushchev, Castro and the Cuban Missile Crisis by Servando Gonzalez
Book - Death Object by Akio Nakatani - Trickery is the way of war - thus has it always been. But the nuclear trick is the biggest, boldest and baddest-ass scam in all of mankind’s ancient and eternal quest for power and profit through mass slaughter.
Remember, we need to be scared and in constant fear so that we hand over our freedoms to an overreaching global elite (NWO) who is here to protect us.
I did not, but let me guess...they did it by tracking tail numbers and flight path data from public records.
Just off the top of my head, that's been done before in a book I read years ago:
https://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Plane-Rendition-Torture-Program/dp/031236024X
...still not impressed by BuzzFeed.
Just because they decided to pay some decent investigative journalists doesn't make them a reputable news source...they're just a gossip rag trying to punch above their weight.
Great book, if you want to go down that rabbit hole.
https://www.amazon.com/Occult-Hillary-Clinton-James-Harris-ebook/dp/B01MDO5GTD
https://www.amazon.co.uk/BBC-Myth-Public-Service/dp/1784784826
I recommend Tom Mill's book on the long history of the BBC and government. It's been used by various governments to years to push a range of agendas. People really need to understand its biases if they want to have a nuanced debate about the issue.
A single Reddit comment isn't capable of explaining this well enough for a good discussion.
Armed Madhouse by Greg Palast