----- Original Message ----- From: "Shane Mage" <shmage at pipeline.com>
On Apr 30, 2011, at 9:41 PM, Wojtek S wrote:
> ...I just do no tbelieve that public views can be totally
> manipulated by the corporate
> media - my experience from Eastern Europe was that propaganda had
> little effect when it went against the grain of popular beliefs and
> myths...
Surely you must remember that your "Actually Existing Socialist" headfixers were green with envy of Madison Avenue--whose techniques of mass manipulation were infantile compared to those of today's media empires.
Shane Mage
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How very, very true. There is no comparison in the sophistication of Madison Avenue vs eastern european propaganda. When I came to the U.S. and was told that there was brainwashing under communism, but under capitalism everyone was free to think for themselves, it was all I could do not to laugh out loud.
Joanna