Guy Smith | April 22, 2013
Tweet“Most voters still get their news from television,” a Rasmussen survey sadly reported before dropping the big bomb. “[They] consider the news reported by the media generally trustworthy.” Any serious student of media and propaganda rapidly comes to the conclusion that if one strives to be misinformed, they must watch the evening news. This is [...]
Guy Smith | February 11, 2013
TweetYou are looking at the essence of modern tyranny. No, not me. The email and all the other emails queued in your inbox. They are your slave masters, along with incoming tweets, Facebook alerts and all other digital information suppositories. A popular thought leader recently opined that fear is what drives most people to obsessively [...]
Guy Smith | January 21, 2013
TweetWhat is the difference between Barack Obama and Ignatius Loyola? Not a hell of a lot. I’m thumbing through a copy of The Ten Commandments of Propaganda, a book by my academic buddy Brian Patrick. Aside from being a well-rounded review of the dark art, Brain illustrates historical cornerstones of propaganda, which includes Ignatius. The [...]
Guy Smith | January 7, 2013
TweetWelcome to a world where one man can shout as loudly as ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and Fox. MSNBC doesn’t count, as their ratings indicate. About a decade ago citizens took control of the national conversation away from traditional media. As I said in the epilog to Shooting The Bull, “When a few million intelligent [...]
Guy Smith | December 17, 2012
TweetTwenty eight corpses hadn’t even cooled before Michael Bloomberg found a TV camera. (Seriously – it takes about several hours for a human body to reach room temperature, but Bloomberg needed less than three to stammer about what he did not know). Ignoring my rule for waiting two news cycles for solid facts to emerge, [...]
