How “anchoring” influences your interpretation of propaganda messaging
A combination of anchoring, false assertion and a logical fallacy turn a newspaper opinion column into powerful propaganda messaging.
CBS 60 Minutes edits Elon Musk interview into fiction, leaving out critical context
CBS 60 Minutes editing leaves out critical context from Elon Musk interview, making it look like Musk said things that he did not actually say. Whether its “social” media or “main stream” media, neither can be trusted.
The headline: “Over half of Americans delay or don’t get health care because they can’t afford it”
The survey appears to have found that over half of Americans postpone preventative checkups when they are not experiencing any health problems which is different than avoiding seeking care for an active health care problem.
The distinction is that in many health care visits, a patient is experiencing something wrong and visits a provider to hopefully find a solution.
In a preventative check up, a patient goes to a provider and asks the provider to find something wrong with them.
Washington State University Marching Band won the Internet, sorry about the media coverage
We do not understand why the media is so careless with facts that are easily verifiable. Keep this in mind when you read any news report – chances are, much of it is not correct.
Did someone really say that meat bought in stores does not harm animals?
Some one really did say this, in 2009, but not in San Francisco, and possibly intended as satire: “To all you hunters who kill animals for food, shame on you; you ought to go to the store and buy the meat that was made there, where no animals were harmed.”
Fake headline: “Someone just made a floating hovercraft Delorean”
Here’s the fake headline: Someone just made a floating hovercraft Delorean – Esquire Middle East.
Matt built his Delorean look-alike hovercraft between 2010 and 2012 which is hardly “just made”. He has, however, put it up for sale. We both have hovercraft and we both flew them at solar eclipse viewing events in Oregon in 2017.
How marketing propaganda persuades us to buy stuff we often do not need
We are surrounded by marketing propaganda that has enlisted networks of individuals posting online reviews. These ecosystems seem like organic grass roots “from the people” reviews. But most are marketing “astro turf” operations. That is, they are corporate sponsored activities designed to look like they are “from the people”.
“Rent control”, median income and median rent
News media has advocated a meme that housing rents increase faster than wages but according to the census data, median wages have grown much faster than median rent.
Revisiting an old topic – almost every item on this propaganda poster was false
Revisiting the old Occupy Democrats propaganda poster from 2016, where nearly every item on the poster was an outright lie. I recently updated the “free childcare” section and added Parts 7 and 8 to this popular series. Seriously, it is the most searched for item on this blog!
Rent A Crowd “Crowds on Demand” – is back in the news
We wrote about rental protest crowds back in 2017. They are now back in the news.