Astroturf and manipulation of media messages | Sharyl Attkisson | TEDxUniversityofNevada
Seen this a few times, always a good watch...
"Beware when interests attack an issue by controversialising or attacking the people, personalities and organisations surrounding it rather than addressing the facts [...]"
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Considering that Sinclair Broadcast Group (her employer) has an entire business model around manipulation and control of media messages, she ought to be an expert!
That's alot of expensive hairdos daily, just to paint a picture that this is local, independent news.
I was surprised to learn astroturfing can be more profitable than lobbying. I read somewhere lobbying gives 1000x returns on investment. And this astroturf is better? Yes. Incredible.
Combine the two and you get a match made in heaven, any efforts that are made to "curb astroturfing" will likely be like the "Save the forest" bills that removes environmental regulati
Haha love it when she goes "... and then there is Wikipedia"
more importantly easily taken up by useful idiots and amplified. "BCASH, SCAMMER, FAKETOSHI" are all used to bully and shut down any reasonable discussion. How do we combat this? /2
The most interesting part of the talk is the bit about caustic language. I think such language is effective because not only does it cause people's reasoning to shit down, but it is/1
