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Tag Archives: Television
Elite television news rescued by COVID
By Jon Rappoport Source: NoMoreFakeNews.com Yet another consequence of the fake pandemic is the propping up of that doddering old fool, elite television news. The COVID story doesn’t need Walter Cronkite. It only needs wall to wall. From 5AM to … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, conditioning, corporate news, culture, elites, History, media, Media Literacy, news, Oligarchy, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged Alternative news, Authoritarianism, Cable News, censorship, Cognitive Dissonance, coronavirus, corporate news, Covid-19, elites, independent media, Mainstream Media, Media Literacy, MSM, network news, Oligarchy, Pandemic, propaganda, Television
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Saturday Matinee: EXP TV
EXP-TV: FREAKTASTIC NEW VIDEO CHANNEL WILL RIP YOUR FACE OFF AND EAT YOUR BRAIN By Richard Metzger Source: Dangerous Minds There are certain things you don’t know you’re missing in life until you’re exposed to them, right? EXP TV just might be … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Film, Saturday Matinee, Video
Tagged bizarro cinema, culture, EXP TV, Found Footage, Television
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THE IMPORTANCE OF ALTERNATIVE MEDIA
By John Scales Avery Source: Blacklisted News The superficiality of today’s television Social critic Neil Postman contrasted the futures predicted in Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave New World in the foreword of his 1985 book “Amusing Ourselves to Death”. He wrote: … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, censorship, civil liberties, conditioning, consciousness, Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, Dystopia, elites, freedom of speech, History, imperialism, media, Media Literacy, news, police state, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, war
Tagged activism, alternative media, American History, Amusing Ourselves To Death, corporate news, Dystopia, Education, Mainstream Media, media, Media Literacy, Neil Postman, Newspapers, Oligarchy, Television, war, William Randolph Hearst
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Saturday Matinee: Evidence
Evidence, Godfrey Reggio’s Short Film on What TV Does to Kids’ Brains By DC Source: Open Culture Between 1982 and 2002, director Godfrey Reggio shot his well known Qatsi trilogy – Koyaanisqatsi, Powaqqatsi, and Naqoyqatsi. Somewhere between the 2nd and … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Film, media, Saturday Matinee, Video
Tagged Evidence, Godfrey Reggio, Mass Media, Qatsi trilogy, Television
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The Doors of Perception: Why Americans Will Believe Almost Anything
By Tim O’Shea Source: Information Clearing House Aldous Huxley’s inspired 1954 essay detailed the vivid, mind-expanding, multisensory insights of his mescaline adventures. By altering his brain chemistry with natural psychotropics, Huxley tapped into a rich and fluid world of shimmering, … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, conditioning, consciousness, Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, elites, Empire, Environment, GMOs, Health, History, media, Media Literacy, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, war, war on terror
Tagged 9/11, Aldous Huxley, corporate news, culture, Dissimulation, Distraction, Edward L. Bernays, Entertainment, GMOs, iraq, Mainstream Media, media, news, Perception, Perception Management, PR, propaganda, Psy-ops, Public Opinion, science, society, Spin, Sports, Television, war, war on terror
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The Crisis of the Now: Distracted and Diverted from the Ever-Encroaching Police State
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby talk, when, in short, a … Continue reading
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Tagged Battlefield America, corporate media, corporate news, Distraction, Diversion, Jacques Ellul, Militarization, News Cycle, police state, Prisons, schools, Spectacle, Television
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Mainstream Media Stock Prices Collapsing as People Choose Internet Over TV
By Nick Bernabe Source: AntiMedia.org The long-term decline in viewership for America’s big TV outlets is finally starting to catch up to their stock prices. Since 2009, media stocks have been some of the best performers in S&P 500, but the last … Continue reading
5 Things Busy People Can Do to Fight the Rising Control System
By Bernie Suarez Source: Truth and Art TV Want to implement small-scale, realistic tasks in your own life to strike back at the control system? Have you been seeing the daily headlines, the lies, the deceit and the global enslavement … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, conditioning, Consumerism, culture, Economics, Empire, Health, Law, police state, propaganda, Social Control, society, State Crime, Technology
Tagged Bernie Suarez, Consumerism, Online Privacy, Smart Phones, Television, Terms and Conditions, Truth and Art TV, TV Addiction
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