The FV Problem = A Press Problem

John Young jya at pipeline.com
Tue Jan 30 17:06:56 PST 1996



Responding to msg by tbyfield at panix.com (t byfield) on Tue, 30 
Jan  3:49 PM

>        Chomsky took the phrase from a book by Walter 
>Lippman, published I  think in 1922; the book's name 
>escapes me now.


Would that be "Public Opinion?"


If so, that's an interesting progression: Bernays to Lippman to 
Chomsky: PR begets PO begets ...  How would the 
politico-linguist's advocacy be characterized, PR, PO or 
whatever is evolving parasitically from hegemonic, ever 
manipulative media?


All the variations of MCI-MS-News-Oracles, global combos and 
recombos burgeoning and emerging.


All the promising, braying, dreaming, lying, manipulating 
markets and investors reminds of Lippman's and Bernay's and 
Chomsky's warnings about evil-doers causing the sky to fall.









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