Here is the Neil Cavuto comment that Eben was talking about:

http://mediamatters.org/items/200809190021?f=s_search

I'd like to use this thread to track the propoganda that media outlets are stuffing down our throats in light of the financial crisis. I think such a thread relates to this course in a broad sense, since Eben has mentioned that a major goal of the status quo is to convince us that a "Free Software" society is simply out of the question. By tracking how the media creates propoganda in the context of the financial crisis, I think we can get a flavor for the media's general propaganda techniques. This general understanding of media propoganda techniques will help us to combat such techniques when they are used in internet-related contexts.

To get things started, I, myself, have seen FoxNews? anchors suggest countless times that the bailout amounts to social-democracy. The anchors then denounce the bailout as categorically evil, simply because it rings of social democracy. Of course, the point of such comments is to convince the viewer that the social democratic viewpoint is simply not legitimate here.

-- AndrewHerink - 27 Sep 2008

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