{"id":2266,"date":"2011-08-05T21:00:40","date_gmt":"2011-08-06T01:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iomaire.com\/?p=2266"},"modified":"2011-08-05T22:30:54","modified_gmt":"2011-08-06T02:30:54","slug":"manufacturing-consent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/2011\/08\/05\/manufacturing-consent\/","title":{"rendered":"Manufacturing Consent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is an interesting article, from <em>Al Jazeera<\/em>, of course, on how the corporate media in this country marginalizes dissent.  If you plan on voting for Obama, do yourself a favor and at least read the article &#8211; it just might begin to show you that what pollutes the airwaves and print media in this country is far, far from the truth.<\/p>\n<p>This article is further evidence of what I like to call the tyranny of television.  Have you done any research on-line about Jerry Mander yet?<\/p>\n<p>And yes, I am a contrarian!<\/p>\n<p>An excerpt from the <a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/indepth\/opinion\/2011\/08\/20118164314283633.html\">article<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The American media deploys a deep and varied arsenal of rhetorical devices in order to marginalise opinions, people and organisations as &#8220;outside the mainstream&#8221; and therefore not worth listening to. For the most part the people and groups being declaimed belong to the political Left. To take one example, the Green Party &#8211; well-organised in all 50 states &#8211; is never quoted in newspapers or invited to send a representative to television programmes that purport to present &#8220;both sides&#8221; of a political issue. (In the United States, &#8220;both sides&#8221; means the back-and-forth between centre-right Democrats and rightist Republicans).&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an interesting article, from Al Jazeera, of course, on how the corporate media in this country marginalizes dissent. If you plan on voting for Obama, do yourself a favor and at least read the article &#8211; it just <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/2011\/08\/05\/manufacturing-consent\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,10,57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2266"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2269,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266\/revisions\/2269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}