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Originally Posted by ante
If you read the thread you would have known that he was referring to the content of different media, journalism, advertising, movies, etc. Which is commonly referred to as "the media".
Or were you just trying to be a wise***?
I know that you are quite intelligent, so it would be more interesting if you offered your opinion on the subject.
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That's exactly my point. "The media" is so many things: newspapers, movies, video games, commercials, billboards...
The implication I read is there is some unified message to influence us to do something. That "the media" is run by some guy behind a curtain like The Wizard of Oz, and that isn't the case.
An election is a great example of the extreme of "media influence" because we can see clearly that some people want us to vote one way, and other people want us to vote another, and the agendas are pretty crystal-clear.
But that's different than "brain-washing".
For example, I thought the nuclear-bomb test in the last Indy Jones movie was a pretty clear anti-war, anti-nuke message. But it's just that, a message. I didn't see it as some attempt to influence my subconscious, especially as my conscious was so aware of it.
So, no, it was no attempt to be a wise-a**. Like I said, it's like blaming the mug for your alcoholism. Don't blame the messenger. Look at who is sending the messages, and I think you see it is all kinds of different people with different agendas and different levels of agendas.