The propaganda battle for our hearts and minds has become increasingly sophisticated. Nowhere has this been demonstrated more clearly than over the war in Syria.
Media that support regime change have peddled falsehoods as facts which have bounced politicians into taking aggressive military action.
So how do we break a vicious cycle that allows the media to facilitate the wanton acts of the military industrial complex? Host Ross Ashcroft is joined by the former British Ambassador to Syria, Peter Ford and founder of Media on Trial, Sheila Coombes.
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I’ll say it again. Propaganda works because most people want to be lied to. Most people want to be told that life is a comic book, with “us” as the good guys, and “them” as evil. This is why most people still believe all the lies about World War II. It's why millions of people obey when they are ordered to go and die in wars. It's why people consistently vote against their own interests.
Moreover people feel safe in a crowd. Hence people form groups based on lies, which they repeat to each other in the group echo chamber. They attack anyone outside their crowd as “conspiracy theorists.”
In short, you can’t be hypnotized unless you consciously or subconsciously want to be hypnotized.
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