Tag Archive for: Mass media

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Milosz Matuschek | Permanent Toxic Rape of Consciousness

"Almost a hundred years ago, the philosopher John Dewey said that we are living in the greatest flood of mass suggestion that mankind has ever seen. But in 100 years, the superlative has only swelled, albeit without this being publicized today. Edward Bernays called propaganda the “executive arm of the invisible government”. And he recognized that propaganda is to democracies what violence is to dictators. Perhaps that would be a contemporary definition of propaganda: it is a Permanent Toxic Rape of Consciousness, or PTRC for short. It is a permanent mindfuck by governments and corporate business, mediated by the media, carried out by bought comedians à la Böhmermann, pseudo-journalists à la Lanz, pseudo-intellectuals à la Precht, pseudo-health politicians, such as the pharmaceutical and drugs minister Lauterbach, pseudo-defence politicians such as Strack-Rheinmetall-Zimmermann, and other parvenus such as Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim, Eckart von Hirschhausen, Sarah Bosetti and other stirrup holders in editorial offices, theaters or foundations. "

Milosz Matuschek

Lester Neil Smith | It’s often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth

"It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance."

Lester Neil Smith

Wolf Dietrich Schneider | Swine flu was the first epidemic that was not spread by viruses, but by journalists

"Swine flu was the first epidemic that was not spread by viruses, but by journalists. It quickly became clear that it was far less dangerous than our old winter flu - that most people were therefore unsuspecting and stupidly participating in the scaremongering by the pharmaceutical industry. Even the most responsible journalists usually lack a sense of proportion. We should keep this in mind: The great killers of humanity are hunger, malaria, AIDS, contaminated drinking water and road traffic."

Wolf Dietrich Schneider

Prof. Rainer Mausfeld | The public debating chamber is at the heart of democracy

"The public debating chamber is at the heart of democracy. However, it can only fulfill its function if it is intact in the sense you mentioned. Since the media constitute the public debate space in the first place, they must be designed in such a way that they do not distort it in favor of powerful interest groups. By their very nature, corporate media cannot perform such a task, as their integration into economic power structures almost inevitably makes them an instrument with which powerful economic lobby groups can covertly introduce themselves into the public debate."

Prof. Rainer Mausfeld

Elon Musk | Some of the smartest people

"Some of the smartest people I know actively believe the press … amazing"

Elon Musk

Baron Arthur Ponsonby | 10 principles of war propaganda

Wir wollen den Krieg nicht
Das gegnerische Lager trägt die Verantwortung
Der Führer des Gegners ist ein Teufel
Wir kämpfen für eine gute Sache
Der Gegner kämpft mit unerlaubten Waffen
Der Gegner begeht mit Absicht Grausamkeiten, wir nur versehentlich
Unsere Verluste sind gering, die des Gegners enorm
Künstler und Intellektuellen unterstützen unsere Sache
Unsere Mission ist heilig
Wer unsere Berichterstattung in Zweifel zieht, ist ein Verräter.

Vladimir Lenin | Why should freedom of speech and freedom of press be allowed?

"Why should freedom of speech and freedom of press be allowed? Why should a government which is doing what it believes to be right allow itself to be criticized? It would not allow opposition by lethal weapons. Ideas are much more fatal things than guns. Why should any man be allowed to buy a printing press and disseminate pernicious opinions calculated to embarrass the government?"

Vladimir Lenin

Hermann Rotermund | short devotional in a living room chapel

"The tone is gently authoritarian, leaving no doubt that this is the way the world is and no other way [....]Proclaimers of unassailable truths [....] The broadcast gives the impression of a short devotional in a living room chapel."

Hermann Rotermund

Christine Prayon | Welke & Co. made “atmosphere against those who think differently”

"I have become increasingly uncomfortable with the way the major socially defining issues have been handled since Corona. I've also talked to the people in charge there and emphasized that I don't want to participate in exposing dissenters to ridicule. Satire must not participate in narrowing the discourse. And now this is exactly what is happening again with the war in Ukraine. Narratives and positions of groups that are high up in the social hierarchy are being repeated incessantly, and at the same time the mood is being set against those who think differently. In my opinion, this no longer has anything to do with satire."

Christine Prayon

Hanns Joachim Friedrichs | You can tell a good journalist

"You can tell a good journalist by the fact that he doesn't get mean about a cause, even a good cause."

Hanns Joachim Friedrichs

Robbie Williams | We’re in a post-truth world

"We're in a post-truth world where you can't believe the media, you can't believe Big Pharma, you can't believe politicians, you can't believe what you're eating, you can't believe yourself. Since we've existed, (if) there is a time where this whole empire could fall, it's now. Of course these things are going to arise because we can't trust anybody or anything. And I personally just believe and invest in my wife and my kids and my family. And yeah, I believe in them,"

Robbie Williams

Volker Bräutigam | Tagesschau, is often the halal to attempted dumbing down of the people

"The announcement 'This is the First German Television with the Tagesschau' is often the halal to attempted dumbing down of the people."

Volker Bräutigam

Dr. Jörn Berninger | politically or medially predetermined thought prison

"There are always events that are played up in the media and lead to more and more people subscribing to the opinion given from the outside. This in turn leads them to build up beliefs that become a thought prison. If one is stuck in such a politically or medially predetermined thought prison, one begins to identify with it and hardly finds a way out. You have to look for a loophole to break out of this thought prison."

Dr. Jörn Berninger

Dr. Markus Krall | After 3 years of propaganda is apparent

"After 3 years of propaganda is apparent:
- Covid was just flu
- The mortality figures were fake
- Masks were useless
- Vaccination was useless and harmful
- School closures were useless
- The high priests of the Covid cult are corrupt profiteers
What now?"

Dr. Markus Krall

Winston Churchill | There is only published opinion

"There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion."

Winston Churchill

Niklas Luhmann | the media don’t depict reality, they create it

"Sure, the media don't depict reality, they create it! And that's why we need counter-publicity!"

Niklas Luhmann

Paul Felix Lazarsfeld | The power of radio

"The power of radio can be compared only with the power of the atomic bomb."

Paul Felix Lazarsfeld

Nicolás Gómez Dávila | In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness

"In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know."

Nicolás Gómez Dávila

Prof. Reiner Mausfeld | A ‘war against X’ decreed from above

"A 'war against X' decreed from above - be it against 'terror' or against a pandemic - is never about what is declared to be fought. All that is sold here as a war against a threat must not be successful at all, because its success for the economic and political centers of power lies precisely in not being successful and in remaining as a means of generating fear and securing domination."

Prof. Reiner Mausfeld

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | The most powerful figment of the imagination is public opinion

"The most powerful figment of the imagination is public opinion: no one knows exactly who makes it, no one has ever met it personally, but everyone lets themselves be tyrannized by it!"

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Max Goldt | This newspaper is an organ of infamy

"This newspaper is an organ of infamy. It is wrong to read it. Someone who contributes to this newspaper is absolutely unacceptable socially. It would be wrong to be friendly or even polite to one of its editors. One must be as unkind to them as the law will just allow. They are bad people who do wrong."

Max Goldt

José Luis Sampedro Sáez | They govern us through fear

"They govern us through fear."

José Luis Sampedro Sáez

Vince Ebert | They would become afraid of something else virtually overnight

"I'm pretty sure: if the climate change thing was miraculously solved, many Germans wouldn't breathe a sigh of relief. They would become afraid of something else virtually overnight."

Vince Ebert

Tony Benn | I think there are two ways in which people are controlled

"I think there are two ways in which people are controlled. First of all, frighten people, and secondly, demoralise them. An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern. And I think there’s an element in the thinking of some people... ‘We don’t want people to be educated, healthy and confident, because they would get out of control."

Tony Benn

Edwin Grant Conklin | Dictators seek to control men’s thoughts

“Dictators seek to control men’s thoughts as well as their bodies and so they attempt to dictate science, education and religion. But dictated education is usually propaganda, dictated history is often mythology, dictated science is pseudo-science.”

Edwin Grant Conklin

Edward Bernays | If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind

"If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without them knowing it."

Edward Bernays

Volker Pispers | What do you think would be going on here

"What do you think would be going on here, if more people realized what was going on?"

Volker Pispers

Dave Smith | basic human liberties

"If you believe that the most basic human liberties ought to be contingent on taking a product from a giant pharmaceutical company then you are not liberal or left wing. You’re not a conservative or patriotic. There is only one word to describe you and that is Fascist."

Dave Smith

Will Spencer | an alcoholic trying to drink yourself sober

"If your answer to every failure of government is more government, you are like an alcoholic trying to drink yourself sober."

Will Spencer

Robert A. Heinlein | There is no worse tyranny

"There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him."

Robert A. Heinlein