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Location: Upstate SC
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Astroturf and manipulation of media messages
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In this eye-opening talk, veteran investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson shows how astroturf, or fake grassroots movements funded by political, corporate, or other special interests very effectively manipulate and distort media messages.
Sharyl Attkisson is an investigative journalist based in Washington D.C. She is currently writing a book entitled Stonewalled (Harper Collins), which addresses the unseen influences of corporations and special interests on the information and images the public receives every day in the news and elsewhere.......
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bYAQ-ZZtEU
This is a nice talk about how media messages are used to manipulate us into "going to see our doctor and ask about" X where X is something for sale. There's a lot of effort like pushing paid for search results higher on google or keeping wikipedia properly manipulated on one side of the argument, i.e. "Ask your doctor about..." and very little on the more general more random consideration that most of us would appreciate. Lots of emphasis on "facts" and very little presentation of data.
My favorite part is this, "was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community." In other words, TED is a corporate conference and would never, ever, never invite someone who points out how corporations guide us towards their preferences. This had to be organized by a local community.
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