roundtable: Re: Back to the Future Robber Baron Days

roundtable: Re: Back to the Future Robber Baron Days

Re: Back to the Future Robber Baron Days

Fred G Athearn (fga@world.std.com)
Sat, 7 Jan 1995 09:44:31 -0500 

Date: Sat, 7 Jan 1995 09:44:31 -0500
From: fga@world.std.com (Fred G Athearn)
Message-Id: <199501071444.AA01846@world.std.com>
To: fga@world.std.com, roundtable@cni.org
Subject: Re: Back to the Future Robber Baron Days

 
Jeff Porten says:
> 
> "...research indicates that the news tends to cause
>  people to identify with the moderates regardless of
>  their own political leanings,..."
 
He makes this point to support his position that:
 
> "...the gatekeepers are not manipulating the adgenda
>  as thoroughly as the conspiracy theorists would like
>  to claim."
 
and that:
 
> "...the nation wide subliminal mind-control broadcasting
>  network isn't quite that effective."
 
He concludes by urging that in order to "avoid marginalization"
we should "moderate our actions."
 
     The point about research showing that the news makes people
"identify with the moderates" is interesting and seem likely to
me.  Does anyone have a citation on that?
 
     But if the existing news DOES have that effect, then isn't
that good evidence that its "gatekeepers" ARE "manipulating the
adgenda" and that it IS acting as an effective form of
"nationwide subliminal mind-control"?
 
     And if this is the case, how can people (like Mr. Porten)
who urge "moderation" know whether they are expressing their
"own personal political leanings" or are just suffering from the
subliminal effects of overexposure to too much "news"?

Fred Athearn
Paradise Hill
Bellows Falls
VT  05101

(802) 869-2003 (voice) fga@world.std.com (E-mail)

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