Mike Norman Economics: gaslighting

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Sunday, February 23, 2020

Are we all being gaslighted by the government? — Richard Murphy

This has become the m.o. of corporate media. It's progressed beyond propaganda to gaslighting.

"Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?"

Tax Research UK
Are we all being gaslighted by the government?
Richard Murphy | Professor of Practice in International Political Economy at City University, London; Director of Tax Research UK; non-executive director of Cambridge Econometrics, and a member of the Progressive Economy Forum

Tuesday, January 15, 2019

Caitlin Johnstone — Mainstream Media Is Now Killing People Directly

...the mass media is not in the business of reporting facts, it’s in the business of selling narratives. Even if those narratives are so shrill and stress-inducing that they imperil the health of their audience....

Fear-mongering is taking its toll. Caitlin Johnstone observes that the problem is not as much Trump as the media and its manufactured narratives. Good read.

Caitlin Johnstone — Rogue Journalist
Mainstream Media Is Now Killing People Directly
Caitlin Johnstone