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Censorship
- Project Censored (easier way to view the top 25, cluster-free!)
- Press freedom index
Propaganda, War(s), Global warming
- The four strategies
- Karen Kwiatkowski describes the Office of Special Plans
- Colin Powell after the invasion
- Persuasion
- Bill Moyers’ special (clip)
- Fox, Iran and Iraq
- Selling the Persian Gulf War
- Dick Cheney and 20/20 foresight
- Rumsfeld (gets a little dicey), passing the buck, busted on Face the Nation
- Discrediting those money-grubbing millionaire global warming alarmist scientists (and spokespeople)
- Debate, British style
- American-style
- Osama bin Laden’s death (Fox, CNN, Democracy Now!)
Fear (TV ads)
- ‘America at risk’
- ‘Terror alerts’
- Is he ‘the one?’
- Beck, Limbaugh and H1N1
- Stephen Colbert’s Super PAC
- Magazine covers
- Stephen Colbert and immigration
- Keep fear alive
- Dukakis Furlough program
- Obama and ‘urban terrorism‘
- Call me Harold (Ford)
- Obama and ‘the promise‘
- Jesse Helms’ ‘hands’ ad
- Romey for president??
- Gingrich for president??
- Rick Perry’s war
- anti-ads . . . (Novick 1, 2 )
Issues, resources
- Populism
- Tea Party & OWS
- WikiLeaks
- Fake News (report 1, report 2)
Some techniques commonly used
- Mighty Wurlitzer (against the ‘general’s revolt‘)
- Mighty Wurlitzer–what is it, how does it work? ? (more recently)
- Astroturf (‘America’s power‘; its backers); opposition research; Tea Party)
- Mighty Wurlitzer (from NY Times story)
- Ad hominem
- John Kerry (MoveOn.org’s response; Bush vs Kerry records😉
- Richard Clarke
- John McCain (Rove and Co.)
- Max Cleland
- Paul O’Neill
- Al Gore
- Intentional ‘leaks’ (Kerry, Valerie Plame, Scott Ritter, Jessica Lynch)
- Distraction (‘terror alerts‘)
- Astroturf
- Best-selling books
- Spin, talking points, sound bites, photo-ops, opposition research
- 3rd party technique (fake news, think tanks, Persian Gulf War campaign)
- Channel one (“Captive audience” trailer)
- Think tanks
- Videos from the Onion (warning–dripping sarcasm)
- no. 1 issue for 2008
- Time’s ‘least influential’
- Home Depot’s heroes tribute
- America’s immigration problem
- The ‘war on terror‘
- News of some sort from Haiti
- Fox’s Shep Smith off script
Fox and Friends
- Obama and the ‘angry black man‘
- Anger management at the White House (CNN)
- McChrystal and Rolling Stone and Mainstream (scooped) media (Daily Show)
- News vs opinion (according to Jon Stewart)
- Shep Smith dissents
- Cal Thomas and angry black women
- O’Reilly and Beck keep it alive
- News meets views on Fox & Friends
- Fox promotes equal opportunity for female journalists
- Chris Matthews shows Stewart shows Hannity
- Fearful people tune in!
- CNN, Obama, and the anti-Christ (and viral media)
- The news-sexus lexus
- Gore’s a sex-crazed poodle (expert panel)
- Al Gore and winter weather
- Shep Smith and Glenn Beck
- Harris poll results
Local TV News??
Unique TV distortions
- Missing women
- Pirate stories (aaaargghh matey !! )
- Online predators (NBC; Fox; stalkers)
- Cyber bullying; CNN
- Workplace murders; other violent acts;
- Satanism
- Carjacking New Orleans
(in)Famous debate moments
- Nixon and Kennedy
- Carter and Ford
- Carter and Reagan (second clip, ‘there you go again‘)
- Mondale and Reagan
- Mondale and Reagan (the ‘age issue’)
- Quayle and Bensten
- Clinton and Bush, Sr.
- Bush then and later
- Bush and Kerry (town hall)
- ‘Bush vs Kerry‘
- Palin and Biden
- ‘Palin and Biden‘
- More highlights
- Obama and Clinton (good for oppo research)
- Obama and McCain (‘safe and clean’ nuclear power; ‘clean’ coal)
- Marshall McLuhan on the Carter/Ford debate
