Taking the risk out of democracy
by Alex Carey · first published 1995
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…That is how we get thought control in a democratic society. See Manufacturing Consent and Necessary Illusions for numerous cases. Wonderful books. See also Alex Carey's work on corporate propaganda, Taking the Risk Out of Democracy.
on “Al Jazeera America to Shut Down in April” ↗…recommend these books as required reading for anyone seeking to change how media works in our society. 1. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Noam Chomsky & Ed Herman[1] 2. Taking the Risk Out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda versus Freedom and Liberty by Alex Carey[2] I realize these have an "anti-corporate" bent to them but they are truly good analyses and well worth reading with at the very least…
on “Request for Startups: News, Jobs, and Democracy” ↗>I have no idea why American unions collapsed I learnt a lot about that unknown history from Alex Carey's classic Taking the Risk Out of Democracy (1987). It was no accident but a huge and deliberate campaign. The story is pretty horrifying. http://gen.lib.rus.ec/search.php?req=Alex+Carey&column=autho... A small part of the story, from p31: "The…
on “Educated Fools” ↗This massive propaganda effort is detailed in a chapter of Alex Carey's Taking the Risk out of Democracy. The scale of it was incredible.
on “New Facebook tool allows employers to suppress “unionize” in workplace chat” ↗