"Propaganda
must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for
hatred." ~ Joseph Goebbels.
As the
Reich Minister of Propaganda in Germany from 1933 - 1945, the personal
perceptions of Goebbels became reality as he systematically primed the Nazi war
machine with his biases. His inflammatory rhetoric included labeling Jews as
sub-humans, lackeys & parasites. The subsequent deaths of over six million
people in concentration camps are grim testimony to the success of his media
brain-washing efforts.
More
than seventy years later, the construct of Nazi propaganda is mimicked in editorials
misconstrued or presented as objective news reporting. The euphoric effect of
mainlining media bias results in an initial rush as less informed (a.k.a. dull
normal) readers are assuaged by hyperbole into a stupor of self-aggrandizement.
But readership
that hasn’t (or cannot due to a diminished intellectual capacity) developed a
critical eye to determine fact from fiction eventually scavenges for another media
high. The Internet and specifically articles posted onto Facebook serve some as
viable news sources. And thus the problem is exacerbated.
Once
this high is scored, a still woefully uninformed but erroneously self-confident
reader might now consider him/herself an “expert” via their booster shot of editorial
incontinence.
The
following are a small sample of opinionated articles masquerading as news
stories found on Facebook the week of 2/7/16. Any intelligent individual knows
the difference between the two and can determine why they are labeled as such.
If not, you are a mere board piece in the game of life subject the whim, fancy & vicissitudes
of a media hell bent on inculcating its self-serving agenda on the gullible masses.
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