Are people easily influenced and manipulated by the media?

Quite a few are, I had PsyWar (w) in the Army, so my buddy and I liked to sit there and critique all the crap they tried to pull.

I don't think it's as bad as it used to be. My Generation pretty much questioned everything and some of us still do. We try to keep the flame of truth and integrity aflame

Most sheeple are oblivious to the extent to which the Jewish world conspiracy ( or call it Israel if you like) controls the mainstream news media and Controls Washington or the power of the international Jewish banks, and the part it plays. The whole USA unfortunately is going to die of sewage asphixiation due to having it's collective head stuck up its rear end.

Oh yes.....just take a look at how many people vote democrat and you can see the manipulation.

Just the libs.

Of course sheep can be lead to slaughter. Look at the most recent declassified documents from the Senate investigation on ISRAELI MANIPULATION of main stream media!

http://corporatemediaexposed....

I hate to say it, but I believe that most Americans ARE influenced by the media, and the Progs are totally manipulated by them......because they are saying what the Progs want to be said, whether true or false. I point to Jesse Jackson's "famous" cutesy lie: "Bush lied, people died". The media loved that line, the Progs loved that line, and even some of the conservatives have bought that line - and it is a total lie.

The way manipulation works is this: throw out a lie on TV that Progs will grab and run with, and immediately it becomes "truth" - that works on all totally ignorant people. Remember how the bombing of the Murrah Bldg was "Rush Limbaugh's fault. Fault of the militias", etc? Remember the shootings in Arizona of the congresswoman and a judge? If you listened to the news and the left, it was the fault of Sarah Palin because one of her ads had crosshairs in it!? Totally irresponsible, totally mean-spirited, totally manipulative garbage is what "news" has become.

I, a conservative, am influenced by the media - I have come to despise their cheapness while parading as power. I have lost all respect for them and for people who use them. If I hear news or read news, my default option is to disbelieve what I read and hear. IF it turns out to be true, I feel lucky.

The amazing thing is that there are apparently some folks who don't understand this basic truism.

Brainless government school drones, raised and nurtured by the government/unions to be SLAVES

Campaign ads and media (TV, radio and internet) is where most people get their opinions formed. Unfortunately most people are lazy and just absorb soundbites full of propaganda rather than researching issues to seek the truths at their cores.

Role? Easily influenced? Who, me?





































Of course not.

It is in fact true that the media has a great influence on the masses. While people say they are not influenced by it, it is certain that they are. It isn't a opinion it is a fact. What influence has propaganda? What influence has advertisements on the people. The media uses this tools, the opinions, the ads to bring their ideals to the men. While I don't want to see a complot, it is certain that the media influences us all.

Don't fool yourself. The public is not easily manipulated. Success comes from a constant and consistent mufti-directional attack on our personal values and thoughts. The assault starts in our schools via teacher spewing liberal progressive isms; at work through forced union membership; movies/television/books through politically slanted content; etc.

Liberal media.....

Director of National Intelligence warns could be a "financial Pearl Harbor we never saw coming."

http://w3.newsmax.com/newslet...

It's been working for them (media and poltiicans) for years now.

Negative attacking campaign ads aren't about issues.

I like your idea of judges -- let's admit the truth: It's not about finding a leader, it's a popularity contest.

Most of them think those in MSM are as dumb as a box of rocks.. they can't figure how they can claim one thing one day and another the next and not feel DIRTY..

Liberals are, thats for sure!

Have you ever noticed that the more Liberal a person is, the more intolerant he is of other opinions? How the heck is that being "liberal"?

I agree.

Of course, people keep voting D and R thinking there is going to be a difference. They are so blinded by the what their crap MSM station tells them the oligarchy will continue for the foreseeable future......Yeah!

Thanks Anonymous. Re: RT news and their agenda, there is a war quote that says, "your enemies are the first to expose your weakness"

That is how hypocrites like Obama keep getting away with it.

"There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press" Mark Twain

Hell yes! I've been with people or overheard people talking about something they've seen or read and because the news said it... It had to be true! Then gone home and researched it and it wasnt even close to the truth. It's scary!

and by political spending ... which is what the RR campaign is counting on.



R stands for Reverse

R stands for Republican

RR stands for double Reverse Republicans (Romney/Ryan)



RR also stands for Rolls-Royce which is apt considering these guys are ALSO tools of the 1%

R stands for rotten

R stands for remove Obama

R stands for Ready to go vote the liar out with my fellow Americans at my side.

R stands for Remember --- Remember that a Democrat said this, Obama must go.

Remember is what women all over America will be doing in Nov...remembering how Ryan and his crone's in the House spent their entire legislative agenda this Congress trying to separate women from the progress they have made over the last 50 yrs.

thanks for reminding me.

Prove that.
Making you buy your own pills or condoms is not preventing birth control.Planned parenthood, and even some schools, give them out for free anyway.

you deny the single minded focus on womens reproductive rights in House since 2010?

you have not been paying attention.

aah .... huh?
Whadya say?

Seriously, I'm not denying. I haven't see the house deny reproduction RIGHTS.
Reproduction financing cut proposals, that I have seen.
Did I miss something about my rights? Please elucidate me.

http://www.americancla.org/ab...

the anti-abortion agedna is plain to see.

its all part of the larger plan... plainly aimed at removing a womans right to choose.

you can ignore it if you want, but a LOT of women are not going to take this lying down (so to speak)...

Its a cabal of what, maybe 20 or 30 nuts on Capitol Hill?
I'll watch it but I'm not getting alarmed yet.

what I'm saying is don't feed the beast.

if they are rewared for this behavior, they will only continue to do it.

Yes, people these days have very short attention spans, and derive most of their information from 5 minute sound bites. Information overload, caused by the 24/7 loquacious flood of cable news, dulls the senses and drives people to seek quick answers to today's vexing problems. This makes them vulnerable to manipulation by the mass media. Few people, it seems, in 21st century America, have the time or inclination to delve deeply into the important issues facing this country. Most are too busy trying to survive in a stagnating economy.