On Sep 8, 2010, at 12:26 AM, Miles Jackson wrote:
> Here's the problem with your argument: if propaganda is all-powerful and omnipresent, how does anyone escape its grip? How are people like you and me (and many LBOsters!) capable of critically assessing the propaganda? I suppose that you could argue that we're all superhumans insusceptible to the Siren charms of mass media, but I suggest a less hubristic explanation: TV and other forms of mass media propanganda on their own cannot "shape" someone's consciousness. As C. points out, there must be preexisting social conditions that both generates the mass media and also produces the kinds of people who uncritically consume it.
As they say in the public opinion biz, we can't tell people what to think but we can tell them what to think about.
Doug