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	Talk:Media manipulation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		I'm sure you've had your delight at claiming that opponents of media distraction must be using media distraction, that's about as funny as saying that people who disagree with you on censorship must be censoring you.
		Distraction by phenomenon: (A term which exists nowhere outside of wikipedia) A risky but effective strategy summarized by David Mamet's movie Wag the Dog, in which the public can be distracted, for long periods of time, from an important issue, by one which occupies more news time.
		Media distraction This article presents a variety of so-called censorship techniques that are already covered at propaganda and creates the name Media distraction to label them.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Media_distraction (2267 words)

	Media manipulation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The process of media manipulation is the way in which individuals or groups use various tricks in dealing with the media in order to create an image of their side of an argument that is most favorable to the receiver.
		Distraction by scapegoat (See scapegoating within the article propaganda): A combination of straw man and ad hominem, in which your weakest opponent (or easiest to discredit) is considered as your only important opponent.
		Distraction by phenomenon : A risky but effective strategy summarized by David Mamet's movie Wag the Dog, in which the public can be distracted, for long periods of time, from an important issue, by one which occupies more news time.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Media_manipulation (897 words)

	Calls For Publications: On Distraction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Distraction has been theorized as a variant of social conduct associated with the loss of the aura, the rise of cinema, and the advent (and tastes) of the mass audience.
		Distraction is also a prominent feature of the permanent war on terror, one name for a pervasive cultural undertone echoing in the wake of September 11th.
		Distraction, then, is not only the disruption of concentration but one of its forms, a diffusion of attention or double vision; the distracted collectivity lives with the imperative that it must go about ts "normal" life while remaining ever vigilant.
	www.unm.edu /~loboblog/cfp/archives/002088.html (402 words)

	CTheory.net
		A distracted mass, potentially, owes nothing, not even its life, to power, and the most dangerous groups are always those that could care less about power, i.e., that are too distracted to care about their own survival.
		Distraction is not an effect of the subject, but a self-organizing machinic assemblage that channels and sorts flows of differently composed matters into relatively consistent layers, much like we see in natural processes of sedimentation and stratification.
		Distraction is a machinery that generates differential rates of flow of matter and energy.
	www.ctheory.net /text_file.asp?pick=131 (6913 words)

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		Distraction is what subtracts one from a collection to create a multiplicity — it is what causes the lone individual to break away from the randomness of a milling crowd and generate a "pack," the unique event that pulls a particle off-track and causes other particles to follow.
		Distraction, of course, is not unique to the military, and it is not the property of a military elite — in its multiple forms, it is a tactical element in all conflicts, and on all sides, military or not.
		Distraction, it would appear, impacts the body today by organizing its flows at a molecular level, at the interface of the cellular structure of the organism and the system of information.
	www.ctheory.net /printer.asp?id=131 (8058 words)

	Show Business (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In words of William Bogard “distraction is one of the elemental features of human experience” (Bogard, 2003) in general we are in a state of dispersion or awareness, although is difficult to identify each state.
		Exist a pattern of behavior that media are in charge to reinforce in order to maintain the system, according to that pattern in the daily activities the individuals lose their individuality and mix themselves in the mass.
		Distraction allows a second event to take place behind or “the side of” the first on, it enables a close approach.” This second event colud be the transformation of culture.
	paginas.tol.itesm.mx /Alumnos/A00743017/cnidia.htm (2184 words)

	Touch The Future
		I had been a media hound for years, a keen observer of socio-political events with a need to keep up with what's happening in Canada, the US, and in the world at large.
		After both my parents passed into spirit in October of 1995, I gave myself a retreat that spawned new reflections on media, particularly as it relates to the ecology of children and the very notion of a sustainable society.
		I had stepped out of a steady diet of media distraction, and thrown light on a habit that, in retrospect, had all the signs of an addiction.
	ttfuture.org /services/visionaries/raffi (816 words)

	The Ad Man
		Still, such media distraction, in conventional terms, should have been an advantage for Green: Bloomberg, the challenger, would not be able to take attention from Green, the favorite.
		The effect of these September 11 advantages was that Bloomberg, with vast media time (he will certainly have been, by an order of magnitude, the largest advertiser in the city during the election period) and little countervailing coverage from the press, became the dominant media force in the city.
		Instead of the paid media being the issue, it was allowed to exist, or was thought to exist, in some autonomous, self-contained sphere: They're his commercials, so let him say what he wants.
	www.newyorkmetro.com /nymetro/news/media/columns/medialife/5396 (1706 words)

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		The Media awards have been steadily growing in size, with this year's entry levels equaling that of last year, despite the time-consuming media distraction of the Olympics.
		If media continues to increase in importance-and the latest wave of media planning and buying companies to start up is a fair indication that it will-this refrain will only get louder.
		However, the major challenge, according to one media director contacted today, is the re-integration of media with the creative process-a necessity when clients are demanding media strategy up front, but something of a difficulty when you're starting with university graduates who may not ever have worked within a full service agency environment.
	www.bandt.com.au /news/91/0c002b91.asp (656 words)

	News from Agape Press
		Edwards says the religious make-up of America is like a bell curve -- secular socialists on the left, devout believers on the right, and the majority of the nation composed of believers who are varied in their commitment.
		In the absence of those [and] in that vacuum which has developed, media have moved in and have taken over," addressing ideas on what is right and wrong, and what is good and bad.
		According to Edwards, most people are unaware of just how their beliefs and feelings are being shaped by the media, which is such a huge part of their lives.
	headlines.agapepress.org /archive/7/102001g.asp (304 words)

	Peace and Global Citizenship in the Information Age by Hazel Henderson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Such media monitoring groups as Freedom House misunderstand the issue by measuring freedom of speech by the numbers of TV sets, radios, telephones per household ---whether or not these are programmed with owners’ biases, propaganda, commercialism, misinformation or trashy entertainment.
		Yet the US public knows that in their increasingly conglomerated media, free speech is limited to elites who own or control media outlets and their favored “pundits”.
		Small town residents discovered that most of their local media were controlled not by local editors, but faraway national or global conglomerates---often with national advertisers able to “can” or spin local stories of pollution or corruption.
	www.hazelhenderson.com /editorials/peaceAndGlobalCitizenship12-03.html (1278 words)

	Distraction - SourceWatch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Techniques of distraction are used to suppress information or points of view by crowding them out of the media, or by inducing other people or groups of people to stop listening to certain arguments, or simply by drawing their attention elsewhere.
		It is controversial, and may be just another conspiracy theory, to say that the government or large corporations are deliberately manipulating the media to distract the populace.
		But the media does have that effect, and the population is distracted.
	www.sourcewatch.org /wiki.phtml?title=Distraction (997 words)

	Distractions Won't Hide Truth About War in Iraq
		Lynch's injuries and capture by the Iraqis -- wildly exaggerated by the U.S. military -- and her rescue by U.S. special forces from an Iraqi hospital -- somewhat exaggerated by the Pentagon -- kept Americans glued to her story while the bad phase of the war was under way.
		Lynch's return last week to her home in Palestine, W.Va., after almost four months at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, provided another media distraction from the hard questions being asked about whether Bush lied to Americans to justify the war in which Lynch was nearly killed.
		The problem was the media hype about her story generated by the military and swallowed enthusiastically by the press.
	www.commondreams.org /views03/0727-05.htm (1069 words)

	ParentMap - Ages & Stages, January 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In moderation, a little TV or other media distraction would seem harmless: a Teletubbies video here, a computer game there, or a session of Leapfrog (it's teaching the alphabet, after all).
		Swanson says media literacy is not her big concern: "I just worry about what my daughter is watching, so I screen for violence and other elements she's not ready to deal with."
		Asked how media use benefits her daughter, Swanson says: "The only benefit she gets is a better mother, because it gives me some uninterrupted time to myself.
	www.parentmap.com /jan_05/0105_5.htm (856 words)

	Written Voices Radio
		Everyone knows that the media surround us, but no one quite understands how this happened and what it has done to our lives.
		He shows how, in their unceasing quest for novelty, the media foster distraction and inattention; how "all-media, all-the-time" fuels celebrity cults, paranoia, and irony; and how any attempt to ward off the onrush becomes an occasion for yet more media.
		Media is not just what we see on TV, it is the infrastructure in which we live our lives, not just 'content' but environment.
	www.writtenvoices.com /titlepage.asp?ISBN=0805048987 (727 words)

	NewsWatch: A Consumer's Guide to the News
		Accuracy in Media (AIM) Accuracy In Media is a non-profit, grassroots citizens watchdog of the news media that critiques botched and bungled news stories and sets the record straight on important issues that have received slanted coverage.
		The Center for Media and Public Affairs (CMPA) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research and educational organization that conducts scientific studies of the news and entertainment media.
		The Media Center at the American Press Institute is funded by a grant from the Robert R. McCormick Tribune Foundation with the aim of helping the newspaper industry adapt to the new technological environment created by the Internet.
	www.newswatch.org (1881 words)

	ZNet Commentary: The FCC And "We": A Media Sermon From Mount Dissector
		Here is the Confession of Desire from the wizard who runs this mighty agency of media control: "The night after I was sworn in, I waited for a visit from the angel of the public interest.
		So once the court ruled, a mighty roar was heard from one corner of Times Square to another, as the mighty merger-ers of a media country they already control called upon their investment bankers to get out their calculators of greed to crank up the engines of consolidation still further.
		Supporting and encouraging the creation of media content that respects pluralism and diversity of expression, and balance in terms of gender, race, culture, language and geographic region.
	www.zmag.org /sustainers/content/2002-03/06schechter.cfm (1482 words)

	CounterSpin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Media are consumed with the story of Presidential candidate George W. Bush's shifting responses to the question of his cocaine use, and the story of their own coverage of the story.
		By now we've seen plenty of silly, disingenuous ways for media to approach the issue, but is there a way journalists could responsibly explore this line of questioning, or is it only a distraction?
		Media critic Norman Solomon has been in that debate, and he'll join us for a discussion.
	archive.webactive.com /webactive/cspin/cspin990827.html (151 words)

	Random_Man_98's Xanga Site
		Or, is Brownies' concern for the media "distraction" rather his feeble attempt to shift the spotlight away from his own incompetence?
		Bonus: Mommies [who are in their sweats and T-shirts, standing by their idling SUVs', sporting bed-heads, drinking coffee, smoking cigarettes, and conversing enthusiastically about Johnny's summer vacation] everywhere will stand by their precious den of children because heaven forbid children walk on their own to bus stops.
		They're just distracting, annoying, and their presence at the "bus stops" is entirely unnecessary.
	www.xanga.com /home.aspx?user=Random_Man_98 (992 words)

	RWYouth - Dust in Their Eyes: Media Distraction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This is actually far more distracting and damaging than if the media were completely controlled and spewed nothing but propaganda.
		If the audience accepts the media as a show for entertainment only, not to be trusted or permitted to define truth, then we have made great strides and reduced the effectiveness of the distraction.
		When that happens, the media's power is broken, and the distraction efforts have failed.
	www.rwyouth.com /article.php?article=91&printer=1 (856 words)

	Sherry Mathews
		Media is such a double edged sword, it slowly shapes us into one of these three categories and then, once shaped, we rely on it either for justification, safety, or distraction.
		wants to completely avoid the affects of the media on him, he is fascinated by watching it in others.
		That doesn’t mean that we should hate the media though, it just means that we have something to work on.
	pegasus.cc.ucf.edu /~smathews/WhiteNoise.htm (2533 words)

	Dan Appleman: Kibitzing and Commentary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In frustration, Governor Schwarznegger called those who refused to act “girlie men.” The media went into a frenzy: he was sexist, he was homophobic, he was….
		In other words, by and large the electorate did not buy into the media distraction, and stayed focused, maybe even appreciated the humor of the Governor using a phrase that was originally used on Saturday Night Live to parody him.
		Weapons of Mass Distraction is also the title of a wonderfully wicked movie.
	www.danappleman.com /index.php?m=20040901 (432 words)

	Take Back The Media! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The story includes how the White House Iraq Group or "WHIG" conspired while supplying lies, dodges, and obfuscations, with the goal of filling Halliburton's coffers while destroying the section of the CIA that was in search of actual weapons of mass destruction, who was spying on the Saudis.
		Rove's War questions why no media source has reported about why Rice isn't held responsible for these sordid, calculated, and treacherous conspiracies as she was the head of this Cabinet position, and these traitors were to report to her.
		Symbolman not only directed and produced this DVD set for Take Back The Media, he also wrote and performed the music, including as a bonus a satirical version of the song, "Secret Agent Man" called "Secret Agent Plame" which is included at the end of the film (and available for your listening pleasure here).
	www.takebackthemedia.com (733 words)

	Uday and Qusay: The Men Who Knew Too Much - A BuzzFlash Editorial
		So luckily for television news and much of the print media, the lifeless, mortician enhanced bodies of Uday and Qusay arrived just in time to lure Americans back to television news and their newspapers during the dog days of summer.
		When an FBI agent from Minnesota was about to testify to Congress that the agency blew an opportunity to prevent the 9/11 hijackings, Bush announced he was proposing a "Homeland Security Agency," after vehemently opposing it for months.
		These are just two examples of how Rove successfully diverted the media from stories that ACTUALLY affect the national security, stories about the untruthfulness and incompetence surrounding the Bush Cartel's handling of our national security.
	www.buzzflash.com /editorial/03/07/28.html (874 words)

	Flopping Aces: Baghdad Sean Penn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The spin and the manipulation of media, the distraction of planned emergencies, is on a whole new level.
		If the mainstream media did its job, Sean Penn and other Hollywood anti-war leftists would be questioned, shamed, and ridiculed.
		Instead, they are enabled by a sympathetic media which publicizes their comments, hoping America accepts them on blind faith.
	floppingaces.blogspot.com /2005/01/baghdad-sean-penn.html (1224 words)

	Girls, Women + Media Project
		The Girls, Women + Media Project is a 21st century, non-profit initiative and network working to increase awareness of how pop culture and media represent, affect, employ, and serve girls and women---and to advocate for improvement in those areas.
		And entertainment can be a fun distraction from the seriousness of our lives, (or it can be a serious contemplation of the distraction of our lives).
		Whatever you call it, it’s a movement in education and culture which is growing alongside the growth and expansion of the media, each day throughout the country and world.
	www.mediaandwomen.org (493 words)

	Distraction of media missiles fired at wrong targets
		THERE was something wonderfully strained about how various media organisations dealt last week with the news of the deaths of Qusay and Uday Hussein.
		It is perfectly legitimate to question – aggressively – the fallible intelligence that was used in part to justify the war.
		Even if you disagreed with the war, it is utterly unfair to the Iraqi people now to use their future and their lives as pawns in a domestic political squabble.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/955535/posts (1288 words)

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