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A funny story about the Media

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http://www.tinyrevolution.com/mt/archives/000596.html

“Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: 1. Those who fear and distrust the people, and wish to draw all powers from them into the hands of the higher classes. 2. Those who identify themselves with the people, have confidence in them, cherish and consider them as the most honest and safe, although not the most wise depository of the public interests. In every country these two parties exist, and in every one where they are free to think, speak, and write, they will declare themselves. Call them, therefore, Liberals and Serviles, Jacobins and Ultras, Whigs and Tories, Republicans and Federalists, Aristocrats and Democrats, or by whatever name you please, they are the same parties still, and pursue the same object. The last appellation of Aristocrats and Democrats is the true one expressing the essence of all.” -Thomas Jefferson

Dead Zone

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“When Westen and his Emory colleagues conducted brain scans during the 2004 presidential campaign, they found that partisans of either side, when presented with contradictory statements by their preferred candidates, would struggle for some seconds with feelings of discomfort, then resolve the matter in their candidates’ favor.

“The scans showed that to do this, they used the part of their brain that controls emotion and conflict. The area that controls reasoning was inactive — “the dead zone,” Westen said.

“Westen writes that it doesn’t make sense to argue an issue using facts and figures and to count on voters — particularly the swing voters who decide national elections — to make choices based on sophisticated understandings of policy differences or procedures. He says Democratic candidates must learn to do what Republicans have understood for many years — they must appeal to emotions. And (talking to you, Mr. Gore) stay away from numbing statistics.”
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-guru9jul09,0,3671214.story?coll=la-home-center

Frank Luntz

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This is an article about Frank Luntz, a corporate and political consultant who has worked closely with the Republican Party and is selling a book called “Words That Work,” about controlling language. He is given the credit for inventing such paradoxical terms as “Death Tax” and “Healthy Forests Initiative.” According to his recommendations, “preemption” was changed to “principles of prevention and protection.” His advice on spinning global warming: “You need to continue to make the lack of scientific certainly a primary issue in the debate… The scientific debate is closing [against us] but is not yet closed. There is still an opportunity to challenge the science.” A lot of people have commented on his Orwellian approach that he calls “clarification.” Maybe he and David “Trickle-down is now called Supply-side” Stockman should get together and write a book called “Yes, We Are Teaching Republicans How to Lie to You and Then Selling You Our Gameplans.” (But I guess they’d have to do it by mail since Stockman was indicted for fraud last March.)

http://www.commonwealinstitute.org/CIBlog/2007/01/frank_luntz_words_that_work_1.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Luntz