Politics and Media

Revcanada

Politics and Media-Thesis

Systematic Propaganda is Evident in Canada 's Mass Media

By

Chandrakant Mallya

Introduction

Politics and media have been comrades in arms since ages . Propaganda has not won anything durable for the perpetrators of this white-collar crime , but the short-term damage inflicted by it is catastrophic in many cases . It has rewritten histories , doomed cultures and destroyed humanity as if human beings are moths ! When the are hired by the media , to pen propaganda literature as part of the systematic campaign with motivated desires , `sword

indeed becomes mightier than the pen The sword has always been used not to cut fruits , but to slit throats Media builds or breaks . It creates such devastating psychological waves within the mind of the reader news becomes views , a difficult to give up addiction . This is propaganda at work . It has the telling impact on the human personality and one is ever influenced by it through the waking , dreaming and sleep states . The power of reasoning is completely hypnotized and doomed by it

The function of propaganda , Hitler wrote in Mein Kampf "is not to make an objective study of the truth " but to incite (Khatchadourian , 2006 In the contemporary political history of the world , we have the example of Bin Laden . He agrees that he is an instigator . To build a case for the cause which he sees as Truth (all authors of propaganda do that because they have jaundiced eyes to identify truth , he does the perfect chiseling to distort facts , commits deliberate errors of omission , builds up his illogical logic and weaves stories that would put the best fiction to shame . To achieve his objectives and cherished goals he has to be contradictory . He says that the people of United States are good but strongly condemns the system that makes the nations slaves of the United States

The `virtues ' of systematic propaganda through mass media were well calculated and implemented by all types of power groups , whether political or religious . If we turn the pages of history , during short bursts , politics and religion were one and the same with some rulers - even now it is the same with a number of countries . Hitler elaborated his thesis about politics and media with the aid of the propaganda tools available to him during his time . The powerful media like television were not available and yet he scored a perfect ten in the propaganda war . Hitler believed that propaganda from the allies was the main reason that the Germans lost during World War I and felt that this form of warfare is needed to be a primary tool in modern warfare . He felt that the public needed to be inundated with the ideology of the state at all times and through all mediums "To do this ' he said everything from child 's story-book to the last news , every theater , every cinema and every advertisement hoarding must be brought into the service of this single mission ' It was the media...