Edward Louis Bernays (1891-1995), o austro-americano pioneiro no campo das relações públicas, publicidade e propaganda, fundamentou todo o seu trabalho em princípios segundo os quais as pessoas são irracionais e as suas decisões, comportamentos e percepção da realidade são facilmente manipuláveis. Tão longe e tão perto dos nossos ancestrais hominídeos, não tendo a generalidade das pessoas consciência disso, de tal forma que têm sido e continuam a ser vítimas da propaganda enquanto outros a usam conscienciosa e implacavelmente.
"Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise." (A. Hitler)
“The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders….All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and for exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” (J. Goebbels)
"Former CIA agent Frank Schnepp perfectly describes the process of laundering disinformation to the press in order to get the public to believe government narratives. (...) Based on this testimony, the CIA would lie to journalists, float the same lie within their own agency and agencies in other countries so that journalists would corroborate it, and peddle false information through trusted media figures."
(https://www.sott.net/article/474046-Sti
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"The work of secret counterintelligence services is to misinform the public in order to shape opinion, and that’s what this is. (...) The current [2017] U.S. government campaign to slander Russia over anything and everything it does bears all the earmarks of a classic disinformation campaign. (...) Recently declassified documents (https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/d
ocument/cia-rdp80b01676r001700030003-0) reveal the CIA’s propaganda extended to all the mainstream media outlets ."
(Artigo originalmente publicado em 2017 e republicado em https://www.veteranstoday.com/2022/11/06/a
merican-imperialism-leads-world-into-dan
tes-vision-of-hell/ )
"Our job Is to control exactly what people think" (Mika Brzezinski, jornalista, autora e comentadora em directo na TV americana - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quU_Tbv96Wk)
Numa recente peça (https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2023/05/28/m
ost-propaganda-looks-nothing-like-this/)
, Caitlin Johnstone aprofunda a relação entre jornalismo, propaganda e condicionamento da opinião pública.