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segunda-feira, 19 de fevereiro de 2024

Mark Goodwin is absolutely right; People believe the rhetoric that demonizes everything public, but the public is us.

The state can function for the public good instead of being at the mercy of the deep state.

We don't need to be communists or socialists to understand the cruciality of universal public services.

Markets are the way people trade goods and services; markets represent just one facet of society.

Capitalism places private property and profits above all else, a genius idea to facilitate the control of society by megalomaniac sociopaths and psychopaths.

We do not lack market freedom; we lack democracy. This is why the powers that be are so irresponsible to the Demos.

Comment on the video: https://youtu.be/MNWftgapuAY?si=eYsL41i7ZZzas7Ad

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