religious propaganda...lasswell

[telebob x]

Lasswell company issued x ray specs with every book by Harold...required 
pre-requisites by Thorstein Veblen, Claud Levi-Strauss, and other 
anthropologist debunkers and early deconstructionist types...Wittgentstein 
and Al Korzybski also issued x-ray specs///not to mention Dell Comics  where 
I first read about them and dreamed....hmm x-ray specs...I will see through 
girls dresses and I will know when others lie to me....

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Harold Lasswell:

Early media researcher -- very interested in the use and effects of 
propaganda, drawing his earliest work from a study of U.S. government 
propaganda in World War I (in particular, the campaign that helped shift 
public opinion from being anti-war to being pro-war and virulently 
anti-German). Like his contemporary, PR pioneer Edward Bernays, Lasswell 
regarded propaganda as an essential tool for "governmental management of 
opinion" -- needed to generate the support of "the masses" for the 
government (e.g., over U.S. entry to WWI).

So, to Lasswell, propaganda was synonymous with democracy! BUT since he 
accepted that propaganda was a mere instrument, it could also be used for 
negative purposes (e.g., Nazis & anti-Semitism)!

Thus Lasswell was a strong media determinist, believing that media content 
could directly affect public opinion in a behaviorist fashion. He called 
this the "hypodermic needle" model of communication, i.e., a linear, one-way 
cause-and-effect model for understanding media's influence on society; the 
mass media could cause change, either for good or ill.

The strong media effects approach is summed up by Lasswell's famous 
formulation:
Mass communication is the study of
"Who ...
... says what ...
... to whom ...
... through what channel ...
... and with what effect"

This approach to communication studies has influenced a vast swathe of 
research down the years, from propaganda studies, numerous types of public 
opinion research, social-psychological studies (e.g., Payne Fund studies, 
effects of motion pictures on juveniles), and of course P.R. and marketing 
research.

Telebob





>From: "Bill Irwin" <billi@aloha.net>
>To: "telebob x" <telebob98@hotmail.com>
>CC: <austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net>
>Subject: Re: Scoundrels, manipulators, and religious propaganda
>Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 10:58:29 -1000
>
>Right On Bob!  I wish everyone in the world could get a pair of those x-ray
>specs.  We would sure have a lot less problems like the current fix.  Being
>able to see through the use of symbols and propaganda to manipulate our
>minds is the first step to liberation, freedom , and being able to see that
>we are all one.  And speaking of needing those x-ray specs, have you been
>watching TV recently (internet and newspapers too)?   Watching all those
>news, talk shows, and magazine shows could cause some kind of permanent
>brain damage if one wasn't wearing those specs.  And of course we know all
>about those advertisers and political campaigns - right?
>
>Unfortunately, I checked down at Wal-Mart and they didn't have any of them
>x-ray specs!  What to do?  Maybe we should try the Eastern technique of
>meditation -you know - stopping the flow of images and thoughts that are 
>for
>the most part formed from that continues flow of symbols and propaganda 
>from
>the outside world that bombard our mind.  Without all that BS maybe we 
>could
>find some small thing we could all agree with.   Well, stupid thought I
>guess - better get back to the tube.
>Bill
>
>PS - what's the Lasswell reference?  Didn't read it.
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: telebob x <telebob98@hotmail.com>
>To: <austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net>
>Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 8:15 AM
>Subject: Scoundrels, manipulators, and religious propaganda
>
>
> > Who was it who said patriotism (read religion) is the last refuge of a
> > scoundrel? These Mullahs use the religion 'flag' for their own selfish
> > interests...just as Fidel uses pictures of Che and Jose Marti
> >
> > We should all re-read H. D. Lasswell on the use of 'symbols' in 
>achieving
> > mass control. These worms are just the latest to fix on inchoate anger 
>and
> > focus it for personal ends....resentment is the most powerful political
> > force....also see Robert Solomon's tirades on this issue.
> >
> > This is really simple and obvious shit and we should see through it like
>we
> > have x ray specs.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > >  This Is a Religious War etc...bla bla
> > > >
> >
> >
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