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sábado, 2 de dezembro de 2023

The masses are indoctrinated by narratives designed to be convenient.

The culture of convenience and immediacy makes people impatient and uninterested in matters that require intellectual effort and prolonged attention.

The majority of subjects we should master to build a comprehensive understanding of the complexity of the stratagems that keep us divided, disorganized, and unable to act in a concerted way against the powers that control our lives and turn many of us into willing accomplices, hoping that somewhere, somehow in the future, may we also be blessed with some of the privileges that those who exploit and oppress us enjoy.

How the Media Frames Political Issues

In The Emergence of American Political Issues (1977) McCombs and Shaw state that the most important effect of the mass media is "its ability to mentally order and organize our world for us. In short, the mass media may not be successful in telling us what to think, but they are stunningly successful in telling us what to think about."[13] The presidential observer Theodore White corroborates this conclusion in The Making of a President (1972):

The power of the press in America is a primordial one. It sets the agenda of public discussion; and this sweeping political power is unrestrained by any law. It determines what people will talk and think about - an authority that in other nations is reserved for tyrants, priests, parties and mandarins.[14]

McCombs and Shaw also note that the media's tendency to structure voters' perceptions of political reality in effect constitutes a bias: "to a considerable degree the art of politics in a democracy is the art of determining which issue dimensions are of major interest to the public or can be made salient in order to win public support."[15]

http://www.scottlondon.com/reports/frames.html