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If Chomsky has taught me anything its that someone other than Gaza is getting genocided right now. (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago (2 children)

You know, I appreciate Chomsky, but his work is mainly intended to get you reading and thinking more on your own than to give you all the answers. Not everything that happens in the news media is a distraction from something else just because he broke down that one propaganda trick really well. Sometimes, events stay glued to our screens because they really are the main propaganda event of the day, and they really do want you to spend all day and all night thinking about it.

In this case, Israel needs tons and tons of people frothing at the mouth supporting genocide, and Palestinians are needing just as many, if not more, to consider that genocide may be wrong, and they're playing tug-of-war in the media. That's all I'm seeing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

whered he break it down, link?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm not 100% sure, but I'm pretty sure the meme and OP are both referring to Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Exactly, It's a commonly cited example from Manufacturing Consent because he broke it down really well there. But everybody who just read Chomsky for the first time then goes out and tries to correlate every single front-page story with the back-page story it's supposed to be covering up, like they've only ever used a single propaganda technique or being predictable wouldn't undermine the value of the propaganda.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

list other techniques

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's not really hard.

There's straight up disinformation, doublespeak, dogwhistles, reliance on fallacy, appeals to authority fear and prejudice, ad hominems, cherry picking, demonization/dehumanization of opponents, etc.

Edit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_techniques

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

He is just another of the right wing wack jobs' boogie men. The mention of his name is meaningless.