CATEGORY: #PropagandaTechniques
The next tier down in the hashtag stack, required for the successful forensic analysis of communications, and thus propaganda, indoctrination and coercion, we can go on to general ‘Propaganda Techniques’which are the stock-in trade of the coercion professional, and have been collated for the first time as a stack-level for convenience in enabling mass understanding. They are either complex variants of, or utilise, the the above and below, and some can be categorised among the tricks of the conman.
They have been collated from many documents and will expand upon with further examples in ‘Propaganda Watchdog Manifesto Part Two Beta v.02’.Propaganda Techniques(complex implementation) i.e.:
1.#Distraction
Some of the most effective propaganda techniques work by misdirecting or distracting the public’s finite attention away from important issues.
It’s important to read between the lines of the news and see what isn’t being reported, or what is reported once, quietly, and not followed up.
In an age of information overload, distraction techniques can as effective as active propaganda.
One way to test for distraction is to look for items that appear repeatedly in foreign press (from neutral and hostile countries) and that don’t appear in your own. But beware of deliberately placed lies that are repeated with the hope that people will believe it if it is repeated often enough.
All active propaganda techniques can be tested by asking if they tend the target audience to act in the best interests of the distributor of the propaganda.
Propaganda presents one point of view as if it were the best or only way to look at a situation.
Sometimes propaganda can be detected by the fact that it changes before and after a critical event, whereas more honest information like medicine, science or any training manual should largely remain the same after the event as before.
If there are big disparities, or if some “valuable lesson” or “wake-up call” has occurred, it means that what was provided before the fact was not really “instruction” but “guessing,” or – if there is no consistent explanation that survives – propaganda.
https://pinkypropaganda.blogspot.com/2010/05/distraction-techniques.html
The use of this hashtag can be amended with a link to the story or issue which would appear to being distracted from.
2.#BurytheLead
Bury the lead (third-person singular simple present buries the lead, present participle burying the lead, simple past and past participle buried the lead)
(idiomatic) (news writing style) To begin a story with details of secondary importance to the reader while postponing more essential points or facts
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bury_the_lead
3.#GoingtothePublicasaChild
The controlled media and press have mandates to provide all news and related media content to be written or presented at no greater level than what a 12 year old child (or less) could understand. If all we have access to in the mainstream news and entertainment is being produced at a child’s level, what kind of impact does that have on significantly lowering literacy levels and human intelligence? How many times have you watched something in the media, and comment, did a 10 year old boy write the script for this?
https://ascensionglossary.com/index.php/Media_Manipulation
“If one goes to a person as if she had the age of 12 years or less, then, because of suggestion, she tends with a certain probability that a response or reaction also devoid of a critical sense as a person 12 years or younger.”
Attributed incorrectly to Noam Chomsky based on ‘Silent Weapons to Quiet Wars’
4.#StrokingPloys
This is just the opposite of name-calling — call somebody good things, like: “a patriot, a real American, a great Christian, a real credit to his race, an example to us all, an inspiration.”
A late-night TV infomercial that advertizes an exercise machine introduces the machine’s designer as: “Here is Joe Blow, one of the hottest men in Hollywood because he gives people what they want — crisp, lean, healthy bodies.”A radio advertisement for vitamins says, “Dr. Sawbones, a recognized authority on blah-blah…” Recognized by whom? We got no actual evidence that Dr. Sawbones knows anything.
https://www.orange-papers.org/orange-propaganda.html#stroking
5.#DeceptionbyRenaming
6.#HideBehindOthers
7.#Tokenism
8.#SlySuggestions
9.#MisleadingInference
10.#GroundlessClaims
11.#IrrelevantInformation
12.#FalseAnalogy
13.#Conflation
14.#QuotesOutOfContext ,etc