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The Psychology of the Media - It's Been Refined

When I have some free time, usually at the end of the day, I tend to look at what the outside world is up to, especially the mainstream media.



And I'm fascinated how they can frame their stories to come up with a narrative to get a lot of people to behave a certain way and to act on it. Before starting to consume this media, you must keep in your head a couple of things:


    1) Media can exaggerate, or even lie, about topics, and 
    2) Media is trying to get you to act a certain way. They mostly do this through emotions and feelings


So one needs to take whatever the media says with a grain of salt. That is all media, by the way, even those articles from a favorable website you need a bit of caution on.

What I usually do is, after reading the article, step back and ask the questions, "what is this article compelling people to do?", "how is it framed and what emotion does it elicit.

Let me give you an example. This has been going on for weeks now, soon after the Covid needle juice has hit the public. Here is a few of a LOT of articles that are framed the same way:





These keep coming out daily, and they are usually framed in the form of a question. For the strong-minded, you can see what the intent is here, to bring up a topic that wasn't brought up before. And they framed it in a form of a question so that they don't look like the ones that brought it up. Again, the aim here is to find out what their intent is.

Up to this point it's obvious that their intent is to get people to roll up their sleeves for this shot. You'd be hard pressed to see an article from the media that is actually *critical* of the shot; it's all cheerleading. That being said, when the weak minded read these articles, it will elicit strong emotions among them, bring this topic front and center. "Oh my God, I might have to work with unvaccinated people!", "I must bring this issue to my employer and ask them what are they going to do about this." And of course, now the employer finds themselves in a situation where they must make a decision on their employees that don't take the shot. And so a lot of the employers will probably placate the weak minded mob and move to remove those who refuse the shot from the workplaces.

See how this works?

All I'm asking you is to keep a keen eye on the media, especially the big conglomerates, take a step back, and ask yourself what their intent is. That is a surefire way to stay closer to the truth on what develops now and in the future.


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