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Jump To Comment: 1 2This is an important topic and it is good to see it raised here.
Governements have to put on the facade that they are democratic, although these days they seem less bothered about it than before. As as part of that facade they have to been seen to react and to be sensitive to public opinion, although on issues important to them, they ignore it all together. For example the fact that 150,000 or so marched against the war was ignored and the goverment still co-operated by offering the use of Shannon. But even then Bertie Ahern tried to spin even this, by claiming that the people marching were supporting the government.
It is of course then to the advantage of the government if public opinion can be either manufactured or manipulated to their needs or at least to whom they government serve. One would think that is the people, but in reality it is big business & corporations and their wealthy owners whom they serve. The media is very much concentrated in the hands of a few large corporations and that which is not, but has much influence is in the hands of the state. The interests of these large media companies are very much in alignment with the state and there is pretty much a close symbiotic relationship between the two.
Many have written about how public opinion is manipulated and there is plenty of evidence for it. For example Noam Chomsky's book: 'The Manufacture of Consent' is a good example. Another good but more shorter account of this can be found in: 'Murdoch almighty: When public loses opinion' at http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_1227.shtml
In a the PR industry which is part and parcel of all this, a good analysis of how the PR industry deceives and manipulates the public can be found in: WAR ON TRUTH - The Secret Battle for the American Mind at http://www.ratical.org/ratville/PRcorrupt.html
An interesting thing to think about though is why is this so effective? It is often said that no-one believes everything they read in the papers and so on, but yet we have the situation in the world today, where we can barely get any decent discussion about the multitude of global problems except when they do come up, they are framed in the current dominant economic model where the profit motive is number one and no serious challenge of that is permitted by the same corporate press.
A partial answer can be found on reading through the book: The Wisdom Of Crowds. Basically the book outlines a (good) case for how a crowd made up of a diverse range of people with a diverse range of knowledge and information will always be better than an individual and the evidence he presents seems to bear this out. What is interesting but not neccessarily pointed out in the book, is that people know this instinctively. It is often suggested that the human mind is pretty much the same as it was 40,000 years ago. And if that is the case for most of that time people would have lived in smaller groups where people would be pretty much diverse, and would have great knowledge about the environment in order to survive. There was of course no PR industry then. And for most of time it is self evident that many heads would have been better than one.
Fast fowarding to today, we probably have carried that instinct or experience through, so when we settle or form on an opinion we look to others. Naturally if we seem to be the odd one out and everyone else seems to be in some kind of agreement, then most people will figure they are wrong and take up the opinion of the crowd. Little do people realize largely because they probably never think about it or realize the size and extent of the media and PR industry nor the efforts that they go to deceive, that all these other people are reading pretty much the same singular thing. There is in fact little or no diversity in their knowledge. (In the book, Wisdom of Crowds the author illustrates how things like stock market or property bubbles arise where everyone is basically reading the same information and diversity has been lost).
In our case today then what you don't realize is that all your friends, accquaintances and mostly everyone else is getting their information from just the same small handfull of news papers and or media reports. Since most of these are corporate owned and have very much the same agenda there is little diversity of information and by controlling the flow of information, in terms of what is said or not said, how questions are asked, what questions are asked, framing of the debate, the types of images shown or not shown and of course the type of outright lies and spin they use means that they have excellent control over what people think considering for many subjects and issues they are the sole sources of information upon which people form opinions on those matters.
Hence the vital role of alternative media like Indymedia to get other stories and alternative viewpoints and additional information out. But when we work on our own, against the saturation and dominance everywhere of the mainstream media, we are still fighting that ingrained and at one time protective mechanism to go with the crowd.
Those in power realize that the media and it's control and thereby the control of public opinion is their most effective tool as it is only through knowledge and awareness of things that people will want to change anything. If they (people) don't have that, then that change will never come about.
Century of the Self by Adam Curtis of Power of Nightmares fame is well worth a gander for the origins of PR.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-26376353651914...28174