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Media scaremongering – TV and newspaper reports
present scaremongering government propaganda as reality.
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Controlled by words – Certain words function
as social control-mechanisms. You can easily identify
them... |
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Naivety TV – Has TV news disappeared up its
own "sophisticated" backside? We pose some big,
"naive", childlike questions. |
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Media-free zones – Avoiding the media to
keep your sanity. Plus "The Word as virus". |
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How to stupidise people – and how to prevent
yourself from being stupidised! |
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Media fearmongering on food – The endless
TV and newspaper scare stories about the dangers of various
foods. |
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The risk of things – Compares the likely
risk of various threats/dangers. An antidote to some media
myths. |
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The cost of things – Compares big expenditures,
and finds that (for example) welfare spending isn't the
biggest drain on the economy (despite media claims). |
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Coercion with a smile – Friendly "persuasion"
or Orwellian doublespeak? – The coercive tricks of
corporate/government PR. |
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6,000 years of antisocial behaviour – Puts
the current media scare over "yobs" into perspective.
Includes some great quotes from the distant past about
moral decline. |
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Semantic propaganda – How to defend yourself
against the cognitive-semantic propaganda which masquerades
as "news" and political "reporting". |
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Tyranny of words – Chapter excerpted from
Stuart Chase's 1938 book, The Tyranny of Words. |
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Media as anxiety-inducer – Keeping the public
in a state of perpetual anxiety serves powerful vested
interests. |
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The rat race – The media's respectable picture
of the corporate workplace contains a dark flipside. |
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Household debt & bank rip-offs – How
banks profit from the poor, the low-paid and the financially
desperate. The bits left out by the mainstream media. |
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Work Hell – Exposes media fallacies about
work. Useful facts & figures. |
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Obsolete free-market metaphors – The "free"
market seems like another media myth. Or an outdated metaphor. |
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The end of work – 75% of work can be automated
(which could be a good thing). |
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Anti-perspectivism – How ruling authorities
depend on "absolute truths" to control people.
And how they misrepresent "relativism". |
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Consumer-anxiety system – How our economy
depends on consumer anxiety (which is fuelled by media
scaremongering). |
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Compulsory education? – TV/newspaper reporters
rarely tackle the deeper questions about our education
system. |
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Alternative economics primer – The media
assumes a capitalism/socialism dichotomy. We provide a
bluffer's guide to alternatives. |
