By Rhoda Wilson/The Expose

We fight against a truly unprecedented disinformation campaign, where the liars are claiming that everyone else is giving out misinformation, basically turning truth on its head.

While propaganda takes many forms, mainstream corporate media play a crucial role. The good news is that people are starting to catch on and trust in corporate media has dropped to an all-time low.

By the early 1900s – literally a century ago – American journalists like Upton Sinclair and George Seldes were discussing the corruption of the media, how they were owned by big business with a profit agenda, and how they were not dealing squarely with investigative reporters.

For propaganda to be effective, there needs to be central coordination of narratives, and that’s where public relations (“PR”) agencies come in. Few appreciate the power that these companies have. Two-thirds to 80% of the content broadcast and published by corporate media comes from public relations firms, so most of the so-called “news” is actually brainwashing propaganda.

Other common PR tools include “public protests” – which are actually made up of people hired by the PR company, and media will of course be sent there to cover it – and front groups, which are paid by industry to promote a particular view that benefits that industry.

Last month, Dr. Joseph Mercola interviewed Michelle Stiles who is a physiotherapist and author from Arizona, USA.  Published last year, her book ‘One Idea to Rule Them All: Reverse Engineering American Propaganda’ discusses how the roots of stagecraft and story narrative have displaced an objective search for truth and why this abuse of language is always the first sign of tyranny.  In her interview, briefly summarised in the paragraphs above, Stiles discussed some of the basic tools used for propaganda.

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