Media Mogul Thrives Off Propaganda

The advancement in technology has made the media more accessible to the public, enabling them to worm their way into the minds of the people nestling false information. The television and radio stations, newspaper and magazine publications and most importantly the internet, which not only can be accessed on a computer or laptop, but through a cellular device surrounds our generation.

The media can get to a person from anywhere at anytime literally following a person throughout his or her daily routine. Unfortunately, not everything a person reads or views is true; Not all news is newsworthy. Therefore, people should be very skeptical about the “news.” Sugar-coating reality or simply disregarding the truth of a matter is a crucial flaw in the world of journalism and the media.

Rupert Murdoch is a man that should be well known among society seeing how he owns 3/4 of the human population. Not literally, but owns people through his media properties. Far right conservative, Murdoch slipped into the industry in 1954 when he inherited his first newspaper company from his father. His mind control over the public began in 1985 when he purchased Behemoth 20th Century-Fox, a television station. In 1996 Murdoch created FOX News with Roger Ailes as the CEO who just so happened to formerly work as the media strategist for Republican Presidents Nixon, Reagan and Bush Sr.

Its ironic that FOX’s marketing slogan is “Fair and Balanced” seeing as how its anything but that. For those of you who haven’t noticed, FOX is a far right conservatively biased news station that has a zero news value. Murdoch uses propaganda to fuel his conservative perspective on to his viewers. It is a station in which to promote a point of view instead of a journalistically based news team.

FOX is one of the first news stations to disregard the art of journalism and turn to propaganda. According to the “OutFoxed” documentary, part of the FOX hierarchy, John Moody, writes up memos of the day which the “journalists” receive in the morning explaining what stories they can and cannot report, the point of view in which to report, the use of certain words over others and to edit clips of speeches to work in the favor of the republicans.

The “journalists” at FOX should be ashamed of themselves, allowing a right winged lunatic to play them like puppets. Not to mention, that they are making fools of themselves by feeding the public false information and conducting themselves in an unprofessional manner. Did you all forget about the oath of ethics? Since when is it okay for news anchors to forcefully argue with guests, cut them off mid sentence and most importantly tell them to shut up. Bill O’Reilly along with all the other anchors are guilty of this unethical behavior.

The documentary shows that Murdoch is convincing his “journalists” that what they are reporting is the truth. So much so that reporting has turned strictly to conservative opinion. Cleverly, slipping in a “some people say” into a story (which FOX tend to do ever so often) is a technique they use to insert political opinion without sourcing. Other methods used to keep the viewer’s attention are the graphics, music, democratic polling, banners on the bottom of the screen, and the American flag everywhere. In 1999, FOX created the “FOX Alert” which meant shocking news was to come such as celebrity gossip which it has been frequently used for. How unnecessary.

The “experts” invited to appear on FOX are all under contract and paid a wage depending on the quality of their performance. According to the documentary, there are more well known republicans on the station than democrats. Many times the liberals are foe liberals, those who agree with the right; Fair and balanced indeed.

The purpose of FOX is to generate fear in the viewers in order to have them side with conservatives. Fear is also struck into the hearts of their employees. The “journalists” are encouraged to humiliate certain people and are rewarded for portraying liberals as the enemy. However, the journalists who go against Murdoch’s agenda are penalized often by suspension. A hostile environment of fear is created for the employee as their every move is monitored.

The greatest FOX mishap has to be the announcement made by the FOX news election system analysts, John Ellis, of the 2001 Presidential winner. Too close to call didn’t stop Ellis from proclaiming his cousin, George W. Bush as the 43rd President. This gave the perception that Bush won, leading other news stations to follow in FOX’s mistake. Conflict of interest hasn’t seemed to restrict some reporters to cover certain stories during presidential elections. FOX has also mislead the country about the war in Iraq claiming it to be a success when the war has not come to an end in order to be determined successful or not. Where is the journalist integrity; Are there no limits?

Murdoch owns 175 newspapers and magazines, 40 television stations, record labels, politicians, airlines, 100 cable channels, 40 book imprints, 9 satellite television networks, and movie studios. There are 4.7 billion people viewing Murdoch enterprises. Does he control the world? You bet he does.

Since the capitalists own the media networks and press they have the final say over what stories are released and what is considered to be news. Not only do they decide the point of view of articles in order to induce a favorable side upon the people [the side that benefits the capitalists] but they can also decide which issues are ignored all together and are forbidden to be written about.

The beliefs citizens have about the world around them are all cultural norms set by the capitalists through media influence. Cultural norms of a society are designed to benefit these elitists only. They use their ownership over large corporations and media networks to spread these norms through television, radio, internet and print media. They understand that the media has a great influence on the lives of people and are therefore able to effectively get their message across and know that it is clearly received.

Readers and viewers should always be aware of the deception brought forth by the media. Pay close attention to what journalists, radio personalities and news anchors are really saying. A person can also completely misconstrued a story because of the play on words made by the journalist. Believe it or not but the media plays a great influence on the lives of society. They have molded the world into what it is today by playing with people’s emotions and psyche.

To watch the documentary go to http://zeitgeist-ny.com/media/outfoxed-rupert-murdochs-war-on-journalism/

What Happened to My Choice?

The government of the United States, along with the governments of the 195 other countries in the world, are attempting to pass a bill that declares the vitamins and nutrients, currently found in our food, to be toxins. The Codex Alimentarius bill, if approved, would enable the government to control the way food and nutrients are handled and sold to the public in order to drive in profits for the benefit of non other than the pharmaceutical, pesticide, biotechnology and chemical industries.

The government has no right to make such a decision for its people. If someone want to treat their body as the sacred temple that it is then they can eat organic food or regular food. If someone want to indulge in salty, greasy fast foods than they can do it. But to take away that choice from the people is simply unconstitutional. What’s next, is the government going to monitor our bowel movements and decide when we can and cannot use the facilities?

Nowadays, everything seems to be headed in that direction. Codex Alimentarius, the bill granting the government the right to choose what we can and cannot eat, reminds me of the Health Care Bill our oh so wonderful, “There will be change,” President Oh-damn i can't believe we voted for you-bama is attempting to pass.

When Obama promised America change, he wasn’t kidding. It just wasn't the type of change we expected.

The Health Care Bill is also taking away our rights as Americans. The government wants to decide what type of health care a person should receive. They want to decide how much money each person is allowed to spend in medical bills each year limiting doctor visits and putting your life at risk.

Not everyone in the world is the same. Bodies may have the same parts and purposes, however, some have more limits to the abilities of organs and limbs. There are people who are in worse health conditions than others and need more attention and medication. This plan will put a cap on the cost a person can spend. Someone who must take medication for life but runs out will drop dead because he or she used up their share of the budget.

Either this country is trying to reduce the population size or turn us into citizens of a communist nation. Maybe the government is attempting to carry out both tasks. Trying to kill two birds with one stone. Pretty clever, U.S.A.

It goes to show you that we are truly in a technologically advanced world, when even the government is multi-tasking; With our laws nonetheless.

You know you text message while you drive. Don’t try to pretend that you don’t. Even though we all know its illegal and it can kill us and others around us we still do it. We take the queue from our leaders.

Obama must be driving the Health Care Bill while texting people about Codex Alimentarius because this country is definitely going to crash and burn. The government knows these two bills are harmful to its people but yet they continue to push for them. I take my hat off to you, wise ones. Thank you for looking out for us and the unborn children who will never be able to graze this earth.