News Forage: 14 Propaganda Techniques Fox “News” Uses to Brainwash Americans. By Dr.
Cynthia BoazThere is nothing more sacred to the maintenance of democracy than a free press. Access to comprehensive, accurate and quality information is essential to the manifestation of Socratic citizenship – the society characterized by a civically engaged, well-informed and socially invested populace. Thus, to the degree that access to quality information is willfully or unintentionally obstructed, democracy itself is degraded.
It is ironic that in the era of 24-hour cable news networks and “reality” programming, the news-to-fluff ratio and overall veracity of information has declined precipitously. Take the fact Americans now spend on average about 50 hours a week using various forms of media, while at the same time cultural literacy levels hover just above the gutter. My curiosity about this question compelled me to sit down and document the most oft-used methods by which willful ignorance has been turned into dogma by Fox News and other propagandists disguised as media. 1. IJMH%20%28Drury%20&%20Winter%29. The new Republican agenda of fear: McCarthyism 2k12 - Orlando liberal. Republicans often accuse President Obama and Democrats of being too "liberal", going as far as calling them "socialists" and even "communists".
Earlier this year, Florida congressman, Republican Allen West, was asked how many members of congress were members of the Communist Party and West replied that nearly 80 members were "card carrying members. " Question: What percentage of the American legislature do you think are card-carrying Marxists or International Socialist? Allen West: It's a good question. I believe there's about 78 to 81 members of the Democrat Party who are members of the Communist Party. It's called the Congressional Progressive Caucus. Allen West has been known to shoot off his mouth with outrageous misinformation that is gobbled up by voters on the far right of the political spectrum who take what West says as truth instead of trying to looking for factual information themselves.
10 documentary films that conservative Republicans must watch - Orlando liberal. Americans across the country are often misinformed or uninformed, getting information from outlets like Fox News, Rush Limbaugh and "think tanks" like the Heritage Foundation and the Cato Institute.
Whether it's the traditional business Republican worried about moving the country to the economic right, or social conservatives who want to indoctrinate the United States with Judeo-Christian values, conservative might want to take a look at one or more of these documentaries in hopes that it might shed some light on their current views. 1. The God Who Wasn't There- The wave of radical fundamentalist Christians within the Republican party is at an all time high. With the loud voice of the Tea Party making its way into the federal government in 2010, the wall of separation between church and state has started to crack. 2.
It's amazing how the United States is the only developed country in the world without a national health care system. 3. 4. 5. 6. s2rheingold. Study Finds Anger is Healthier Than Fear - Carnegie Mellon Today. He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty...Proverbs 16:32 Well, maybe being slow-to-anger isn’t all that King Solomon made it out to be.
A provocative new study by Jennifer Lerner in the Department of Social and Decision Sciences (SDS) suggests that anger may be a healthier response than fear in situations in which anger is justified. Lerner’s study, published this past November in the journal Biological Psychiatry, found that people who respond to stressful situations with angry facial expressions, rather than fearful expressions, are less likely to suffer such ill effects of stress as high blood pressure and high stress hormone secretion.
Darwin first proposed that facial expressions of emotion signal biological responses to challenges and opportunities. More than a century later, a number of scientists have taken up Darwin’s hypothesis. The paper was co-authored by Roxana M. “Anger can sometimes be adaptive. Evidence to Suggest that Copulatory Vocalizations in Women Are Not a Reflexive Consequence of Orgasm (Colin Hendrie) Etc.]andinstructionalcommands[e.g.
,‘‘more’’])duringvariousstages of a copulatory bout, answered using a 10-point scale. Use of Copulatory Vocalizations Questions to do with how often noises were made during sexeven when they knew they were not going to orgasm wererecorded (percentage frequency), whether copulatory vocal-izations were deliberately used to ‘‘speed things up’’ (i.e. ,encourage their partner’s climax and thus terminate inter-course), answered as a‘‘yes’’or‘‘no’’. Reasons for Tactical Use of Copulatory Vocalizations Questionstodowiththefemale’sperceptionoftheeffectthattheircopulatoryvocalizationshadontheirsexualpartner(e.g. Consequences of Intercourse Results Data were analyzed using analysis of variance (ANOVA)with orthogonal contrasts to perform pairwise comparisons.Further correlational analyses were conducted using Pear-son’s r .
P.