#manufacturingconsent — Public Fediverse posts

“How ‘Anonymous Quotes’ Are Used by Political Journalists and Spin Doctors to Deceive the Public”

by Peter Oborne in The Byline Times on Substack

@uk_politics
@BBC5Live
@BBCRadio4
@BBCNews

“A startling admission by a Times journalist has revealed how political journalism and power really works in Westminster”

https://open.substack.com/pub/bylinetimes/p/how-anonymous-quotes-are-used-by

#Press #SocialMedia #UK #AnonymousQuotes #Journalism #Deception #ManufacturingConsent #Peck #TheTimes #Spin #Conspiracy

[A long thread ball 🧶]

#Work is a matter of power and domination.
#Work should be a concern of political theory.

Here is the introduction from Kathi Weeks' book 'The problem with work: feminism, Marxism, antiwork politics and postwork imaginaries': https://libcom.org/article/problem-work-kathi-weeks @politicalscience

#fetishism #manufacturingConsent #believe #beliefs #faith #hope #institutionsDeceive #politicalTheory #growth #consumerism #economy #shopping #capitalism #workCulture #jobs #KathiWeeks #imagination #feminism #Marxism #antiwork #politics #postwork #book #buying #consuming #consumption #workEthics #Foucault #bioPower #bioPolitics #MaxWeber #longRead

Today, we discovered a new #Mastodon (or #Fediverse) #recipe: use the hashtags #JillStein or #VoteThirdParty and immediately get #hate from #Kamala worshippers, including the #racist and #conspiratorial kind.

Well, not that new: It's the same in #Germany: reject the #criminal "#mainstream" and you're #AfD, #Putin or an "antisemitic #terrorist sympathizer".

#RadicalCentrism (so-called)

#2024PresidentialElection #PresidentialElection #KamalaHarris #FediHate #Brainwashed #ManufacturingConsent

Al Jazeera exposes pro-Israel groups paying students to smear pro-Palestine activists. This expose was blocked from airing in the US.

#Israel #BuyingAstroturf #USA #coverup #foreignagents #mediamanipulation #governmentcollusion #manufacturingconsent #GenocideEnablers

How the UK Security Services neutralised the country’s leading liberal newspaper:
(2019) https://www.declassifieduk.org/how-the-uk-security-services-neutralised-the-countrys-leading-liberal-newspaper/

#TheGuardian #Assange #Corbyn #MI5 #MI6 #LabourParty #Labour #England #Britain #UK #centreLeft #leftOfCentre #elections #UKPol #politics #SocialDemocracy #SocDem #media #security #manipulation #coOpting #conflation #confusion #antisemitism #Guardian #DumpTheGuardian #manufacturingConsent