Co-author Nolan Higdon discusses “United States of Distraction: Media Manipulation in Post-Truth America (And What We Can Do About It).”

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28 thoughts on “How Corporate Media Fueled Trump’s Rise”
  1. NOT a matter of distraction nor voter stupidity but of plutocratic take over of both parties and the DNC backing yet ANOTHER neolib. That and too few americans getting in the streets to fight back against the corporate machine

  2. US Mainstream Media has become Total Propaganda Machine
    for the Corporate Stranglehold, PLUTOCRACY, Neoliberalism,
    Predatory Capitalism, Predatory For-Profit Healthcare System,
    Crony Capitalism, Wall Street, Big Corporations, Big Pharma,
    Insurance Companies, Corporate Media Advertisers, Defense Contractors,
    Zionism, CIA, Pentagon, Bloated Military Budget, Endless Wars and Militay-Industrial Complex.

    But Majority of Americans still never try to BOYCOTT, SUE and PROTEST
    against the Corrupt Media and Their Advertisers COLLECTIVELY.
    Americans should at least admit that their Notorious and Willful Ignorance,
    Laziness, Selfish Individualism, Cowardice and Habits of Making Excuses.

  3. Dear Americans,
    Please do not blame "Democracy" to defend your country's own problem.
    Go research "US Democray Index".
    Americans easily forget How Vulnerable and Weak American Democracy is and
    Many Flaws US Democratic System have COMPARED to Other Stable Democratic Countries.

    (ex. Electoral College and Bogus Voting System, Gerrymandering, Voter Suppression,
    PLUTOCRACY, Corporate PAC Money, Bogus "Corporate Lobbying and Donation" System
    that is LEGALIZED Bribery and Corruption.)

  4. As Insightful People always did say,
    Donald Trump is just SYMPTOM of Bigger Issues in America, He is NOT Disease (Cause).

    Corrupt US Mainstream Media and Clueless Democrats are OBSESSED with Trump Theater,
    BUT, they refuse to talk about Real Issues to GIVE us Donald Trump.
    The Issues are DECADES after DECADES of PLUTOCRACY, Neoliberal Policies, Corporate Stranglehold, Right Wing Extremism and Fearmongering, Corrupt Corporate Democrats, Political Corruption,
    CORRUPT Media, Crony Capitalism, Predatory Capitalism etc.

  5. The uncertainty and chronology of historical events provokes and cultivates critical thinking. This is why history has given way to bland subjects like civics and social studies. You are not suppose to ask questions about where religion comes from or the origins of the arts and literature or the evolution of governments and wars. You are made to believe that these questions are none of your business.

    Thank you, Jaisal

  6. Sondland didn't confirm quid pro quo. Not at all, the exact opposite. I had wondered why I stopped following Real news network, and this video reminds me why I wont. I'm not even American, I don't even like Trump. But I hate liars and agenda driven activism disguised as journalism.

  7. We don’t need a communist party running this country because the democrats in California has raised taxes to allow more poverty from across the boarder

  8. Nolan Higdon seems to be operating outside the research on propaganda. The public always figure it out, but there's a lag with each new deception device. Of course very few people can identify propaganda. That's a testament to its quality. What you do to counteract propaganda has always been the same: Test your trust relationships with everyone you rely on for information to make sure that, over time, they prove out to be basically honest. I can name 30 to 40 information providers I've never caught lying. Virtually none of them is well paid. If the person telling you what reality looks like is being paid ten times what you are, they are lying to you with very rare exception. Glenn Greenwald is paid over $500k/yr but he's well worth it and I've never caught him in a lie. Same with Matt Taibbi at about $300k/yr. They are totally unusual and I can't think of any others as honest yet being paid so well.

    Develop a relationship with all of your sources of information or you will be used and abused and made to believe and do things you will regret. Good people like you and me are trying to help everywhere. Find them and get to know them. Shun the well paid professional liars at NY Times, WaPo, and all cable news. Pay close attention to the highly consistent propaganda narratives dominating all reportage from the three world wire services: Associated Press, Agence France Press and Reuters. They set the entire narrative and they are criminally deceptive with a combined staff of about 15,000 cranking out false narratives around the clock and around the world.

  9. Interesting this fellow talks about critical thinking being so important then goes on to use the type of irresponsible generalities that undermine critical thinking and is a tactic of corporate media.

  10. Corporate Democrats and Republicans agree on most things … climate denial … prison populations … forever war … massive drug prices and now we have … Bloomberg … yet another billionaire. Far out your stuffed USA. Stop and frisk all non whites every day !!! 7 years jail for a a bag of weed for the Latino and a warning for the white college boy.

  11. FYI….https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJZcqjtGFmI (published today) Why don't you do a story on how Field McConnel is in jail for exposing the fraudulent legal system in Broward county in florida and how they are connected to Ukraine and Epstein and child trafficking. Trump knows about this case and is going to Broward county tomorrow. Trump is strongly associated with this case and the case of Timothy Holmseth, a reporter from minnesota that has been reporting on the child trafficking….

  12. Trump the most corrupted ??? What about Clinton’s, what about Democratic Party , what about mass media ???? “Real news” – Branch of CNN .

  13. 5:49 Nope, you are NOT the only ones. Will people in the US ever accept that they are not all that exceptional?
    Article 8 of the Constitution of Mexico: "Toda persona tiene derecho al libre acceso a información plural y oportuna, así como a buscar, recibir y difundir información e ideas de toda índole por cualquier medio de expresión." [Every person has the right to freely access to plural and appropriate information, as well as to seek, receive and disseminate information and ideas of any kind by any means of expression].

  14. Every global empire inherits a sadistic psychopathic dictator and the US has had their fair share of sadistic psychopathic dictators as Presidents.

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