WATCH: Mass Media – A History
Join James Corbett for this special edition of The Corbett Report podcast, where he walks you through Mass Media: A History, a 3-lesson, 6+ hour online course examining the history of media, exploring media’s impact on society, and revealing where technological developments in media technology are taking us in the future.
With lectures in audio and video formats, hyperlinked transcript, recommended reading and study guides, this course takes you on a whirlwind tour of over 500 years of history and shows you what the future of media might look like and why it matters.
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I was really disappointed it was behind a paywall.
Wow, I don’t agree with James concept of ‘mediated reality’… at all!
Plus the man complicates what is very simple, but the most important regarding anything James ay is that he doesn’t discern the spiritual aspect of anything, like the spiritual aspect of the world conspiracy. Like many others, he only sees financial and social control, when these are only means to an ultimate spiritual enslavement into the jewish luciferian cabala… as David Spangler has stated.
We know that the media is a power vehicle for mass indoctrination, but more important, is a gigantic vehicle to lead people away from God – this is the very top goal of the media in general!!!
“Propaganda and Advertising 101.”
They’re not taking me anywhere, I haven’t paid it any attention for over 15 years, didn’t find out who obama was until 2014, or trump until 2019, I’d never heard of them before a passing conversation with an acquaintance, who now has no substance to his life other than what merlins magic screen gives him.
Despite what dystopian nightmares are coming, preperation for a healthy life is always the same, coercive mind manipulation isn’t one of them. Pointless filling your head with corrupted things beyond your frame of influence, its just another element causing the society to breakdown and relations to distort. Don’t let the media frame your relationships, bad idea.
It’s a balance though isn’t. You need to remain aware enough of the monster to avoid being eaten by it. Complete obliviousness leaves you as vulnerable as complete acceptance.
Sophie
Net articles are news print the fact they are meaningless digital computerisation betrays it’s inner commercial foundation of absolutes.
These absolutes are restrictive measures based on participation limits.
What does this actually mean?
Spurgle wanna halftone fingle bob. Him a vurf booge durgle bat.
Clear as day to a speaker of Bot.
Thank you Diva Bottom ☺
Actually, it’s an attempt to point out a restricted spell check key pad can’t imo, be considered very news media worthy.
It’s far too weak easy and anyone can do it., as you just pointed out.
Result after decades of use has only contributed to irelevence by its choice of language.
What I would Personally like to see before I die (68), is young and older people in Internet Countries, reading Newspapers…again.
thx
It means that the media is run by Natzees and only those who are stupid enough to be used by them can come to the party.
He said ‘beyond your frame of influence,’ That’s not obliviousness. That’s obviousness.
Does Corbett have to be so laboured and smug in the manner in which he presents his case. I think readers of the Corbett Report have got enough marbles to appreciate that the world is run by the eugenicist elite class whose power is omnipresent and totally ruthless.
But we get it! It stands out like a sore thumb.
I don’t disagree with Corbett, but much of what he presents is simply so much common-sense rather than a six hour presentation of what most of us already know. Can anybody seriously own up to sitting through such a didactic exercise.
he’s american.
Like the fact this site shows what a complete Gobshite he is. The Plonker probably comes with a Genuine Government Health Warning imo.
1-3 mins listening to his spewing into a bucket was enough for me.
I notice the 77th has been out for his blood even more than usual lately. Loads of bots trying to seed memes that he’s either a controlled op or totally irrelevant.
He’s actually not. Canadian as practically every pet of everyone who’s ever listened to him knows. And their plants and pet fish.
He’s Canadian
Perhaps, given the gradual but ineluctable evaporation of the myth that Canada, unlike its southern neighbor, is an idyllic, amiable, civilized liberal democracy, sabelmouse may argue that this is now a distinction without a difference. 😉
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2022/07/04/Get-Ready-Forever-Plague/ The remarkable thing about this latest piece of ecstatically masturbating fear porn is how the title – “Get Ready for the Forever Plague” – sounds like a penetratingly critical deconstruction of the panic mongering and yet it is anything but! These jackals are now so assured of the effect of their own propaganda that they are now blatantly admitting The Evil Deadly Bug will be here forever and ever! After a scary picture of crow masked medieval plague doctor, the article dissolves into a frenzied wankathon of utter horror that goes on and on and on and on until the Lovecraftian adjectives seem to coalesce into a gibbering chant: “…frightening reality … forever pandemic … more probable day by day… evade vaccines …a plague of willful incompetence… wreak havoc with vital organs … to evolve at a furious pace….Yes, the people have been abandoned….So don’t expect “normal” to return… Read more »
Well well well – it seems the Tyee must be one of the earliest spook sites to be activated right at the start of Event Covid:
https://thetyee.ca/News/2020/04/01/Corona-Viral-Misinformation/
And note that this is from 1st April 2020! What a staggeringly slithery pre-emption of all the valid criticism of covid to come.
And the slimy manipulation of this:
By Christ was the deep state well prepared for all this shit!
I’m proud to call myself a Luddite and I thought I would log in to see the comments on that Tyee piece on “the Forever Plague” (which although barely two weeks old is aleady closed). So I dutifully typed in my Disqus password and ticked that I am not a robot. And then it hit me with one of those viewing tests: “Click the squares that have traffic lights”. So I did and then it hit me with another one and I did that too. And then it hit me with a third, at which point I just baled out. I recall hardly ever being able to get through these visual tests and I now consider them a total con. Which would affirm my belief – and it’s fucking obvious anyway! – that Tyee is a totally controlled fake site.
“CAPTCHA” ordeals are models of technocratic sadism.
Bitter experience reveals that the administrators can choose levels of difficulty.
Sometimes one need only click “I am not a robot”, and sometimes the abominable visual tests are mercifully straightforward, i.e. they exclude ambiguity and mind-effing traps. Does the bit of sloping landscape in the corner of the panel qualify as a “hill”?
Then there are the Kafkaesque “CAPTCHA” loops you describe, in which the user is presented with multiple panels that are blatantly ambiguous and treacherous. They’re obviously intended to discourage and repel access.
Even this variability is monstrous. The user is not only tormented by the insidious cat-and-mouse nature of the exercise– we have to face the Russian Roulette-like dilemma of whether a given CAPTCHA will be forgiving or abusive.
I loathe CAPTCHA with the burning intensity of ten thousand white-hot suns! 🌞 🌞
I Am Not a Robot.
Are you sure? I Am Not A Robot was an explanation of myself deciding to temp. or permanently join Net social media.
I thought well, A lot of people appear to be doing it why not.
For me, Not A Robot has fundamentals one of which is, as an individual, right/wrong, correct/incorrect, good/bad and indifferent are ecceptable absolutes.
Humanity has always been insane, for the most part, but now it’s taking off like a newly launched ICBM missile…
Well, things just don’t vanish when you lower a mask and blow your nose while sat on the bog.
You People with a pull chain bog never fail to amaze me.
George, you think people missed a golden opportunity to reuse the old piss pots ya know, the gosunders, and just test their pee?
I do, Pee & Blood after 24hrs of no drink no food, pee and blood.
Freaky! The illustration accompanying this article looked oddly familar, but at first I couldn’t figure out why. I finally realized that it looks a lot like the cover of a “One Hundred Greatest TV Themes” CD I purchased years and years ago:
https://twitter.com/darrengrimes_/status/1547519705292107778?s=20&t=JMrlXGGSkCqzvCC38H9aVQ
Well it shouldn’t baffle you Darren. Race baiting is what it’s all about.
FIRST INKLING OF ANTI-VAXX FROM RUSSIA?
“If more and more of the vaccinated are getting sick, even seriously and to the point of death, then some alarm should go off in the minds of Italians who should wonder whether the course of action so far followed (imposed) by the government is really correct.
See more at https://english.pravda.ru/opinion/153065-covid_italy/
Of course, stuff like that only happens in Italy, not in Russia. 😉
The article is discussing EXACTLY the same policies as being followed everywhere else, including vaxxing. That’s the whole point I’m making!
But Italy isn’t using the lovely safe Russian vaxx. So no connection needs to be made
No injection is “safe” they are classed as being an effective form of treatment at such time they are administered for a specific condition. (NHS).
I admit it was some time ago I asked my sister but pretty much it should be clear enough in the British language.
Now, personally I do care or give a flying fuck when some Dickhead or Dickweed says: “I believe everyone should be jabbed” that person wherever they maybe, are flaming Nutcase Casino Cronies.
Wait is this free? I started the hour long episode of his pod but it became a pitch for the course – right after he talks about how we spend too much time in mediated reality – not the best way to pitch buying 6 hours of media. That being said I’m sure it’s well researched and worth it.
I’d rather give to help people on dialysis machines. and we also collect aluminum cans and pull tabs. The person it may help are people who need it., that’s all we need to know.
he doesnt mention the real problem with the (msm)
My course on the History of Mass Media is free. It consists of one sentence: “The Mass Media is whatever the ruling aristocracy wants it to be.”
There.
As a arm of the US deep state, Blackrock are using trillions in freshly printed, soon to be worthless dollars, artificially kept high through military action in the Ukraine, & market manipulation, to buy up distressed but productive agricultural land & businesses driven to bankruptcy, at home and overseas. They buy up entire sectors of the economy, destroyed by Green & Covid policies, given fake legitimacy by compromised scientist, entrapped by the CIA’s Einstein operation & promised a seat at the right hand side of god & implemented by traitors, CIA compromised politicians, like American Johnson, Mackinsey’s Macron, Uniliver’s mark Rutter, Scholz & Mario Draghi. The beautiful symmetry of US empire….all working together…..to loot the world. The most important thing is that you don’t know it is the USA behind all of it, so they have a solution for that too…hence the CIA’s creation of the pantomime nazi Klaus Schwab, and the fantasy of a globalist conspiracy under… Read more »
US isn’t behind it all– merely chosen to be the military arm, years ago. Rockefellers, Bushes and other “Americans” are high up in the cabal, but it’s not essentially a nation-state phenomena. It’s an international cabal of families; banking and the ability to manipulate govts to capture resources and monopolize industries were essential in their theft of most wealth.
A long time ago I wrote a central fire control system mostly in Pascal with some assembler
I needed to think of a name for the system and I chose CentaurusCentaurus’: virologists express concern at new Covid subvariantGreat minds think alike : YUK
https://www.reddit.com/r/CoronavirusCirclejerk/comments/vzhsnf/dramatic_much/
https://www.reddit.com/r/FauciForPrison/comments/vx4xgl/cause_of_death_unknown_what_in_the_world_could_it/
It’s a real mystery…”sudden death illness”
All started just after the jabs were rolled out…
What could it be 🤔
https://www.reddit.com/r/Anarcho_Capitalism/comments/vz887o/italy_happenings_taxi_drivers_protesting_in_rome/
The mass media is less dangerous propaganda than “entertainment”.
good oveservation Edwige.. Maybe a list of the history and order of danger (effectiveness) should be developed? First might be the Global monopoly powered trans border bigger than National Government Corporations (often listed on major Stock, Bond or Commodities market exchanges) <=then the International global organizations which extract into their powers local nation state sovereignty so local political systems that govern the people of the nations are muted or disconnected (like the EU, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the World Bank, the world patent, copyright, and trademark organizations, the International Monetary Fund, the world economic forum, the UN Security Council) <= these organizations are dangerous to human existence all can be connected by history to Oligarch rape and oligarch pillage of humanity. The story of propaganda begins before the assassination of Lincoln in 1865<= moves to British Propaganda introduced during Wilson’s American 1911 by infiltration of British-intelligence <=propaganda in education… Read more »
Conspiracy Theorist ?
Is Corbett still a conspiracy theorist ? This “course” sounded a bit weak to me. I was hoping he would get into the relationship of Reuters with the banksers and so on.
This is just the promo. The course costs $50.
U.K -Online Safety Bill (Censors Charter) is ‘paused’.Betchya when the New P.M and the winter colds turns in to the apocalypse they may hurry it through. (hope not).
Only idiots will pay for a course from controlled opposition.
Agreed. You can make good money on ”dissent”, btw as ”dissent” sells well.
They have the nerve, I mean OffG..
Many, many individuals as well as various channels made wads of money ”opposing” covid.
“He who prides himself on giving what he thinks the public wants is often creating a fictitious demand for low standards which he will then satisfy.” — John Reith, 1st Baron Reith
“Television is the most confoundedly mischievous thing yet” — Lord Reith, attrib.