The headline posters are telling what is the problem of society

The headline posters are telling what is the problem of society

The newspapers are an excellent tool when we want to make analyze the feelings of society. The headline posters are telling, what are the attitudes and problems with people, and they uncover the problems, what are felt as very important. But the question is, who thinks that those topics are really important is different, what normal people believe.

The persons who are choosing those headlines and articles are representing somebody. And that means that the selection maker thinks, that there are some problems with that. The idea of newspaper articles is to highlight things, what needs the fixing, and otherwise, they are meant for supporting some idea or ideology, and that makes those articles very well source when we are looking at the important things.

When newspapers are full of mental disorders and other kinds of things, and the idea is that the director's mental condition can turn down, there must be some kind of reason for that. Those things like mental condition are of course dear to some people, who are thinking about changing the ownership of the company.

And if the director or main owner can send to the mental hospital, that kind of things would be very easy. If the court system would give judgment, that the person is unable to handle things like own money, that means the inmate would be declared as the incompetent. Then there would be no need to ask opinions of that person. 

That would make discussions very easy because meetings can happen without that person exists in the discussions. This kind of things would make many things easier, and that's why some people like to ask medical help for giving support for their benefit from the medical staff. And psychiatrical problems are a very good stick in that kind of things.

Those problems are things, which are very good to sell in the court system, and the idea is that the mental patient can be dangerous. The movies like "Hannibal" are shown that psychiatrical patients right is different than other patients. And their guardians would not do a thing in this kind of cases. only one joke about Parkinson patient would cause the media reaction, but nobody even cares about the movies like "Hannibal" what also stamp the psychiatric patients.

And when Trump mentioned them as animals, the media cheers about that kind of things. This is interesting because media has judged the Trumps way to rule. But they didn't even say anything against those kinds of comments, and when we are thinking the depressions and suicides, most of the psychiatric patients are not criminals. So why this kind of things is so hard to justify. When we are thinking about books, where the drug addict has offered drugs to friends and caused their death, that kind of things is so-called acceptable.

Algorithms and fake news are a threat to democracy

Algorithms and fake news are a threat to democracy

As I have written before the same algorithms, what are used for marketing, can be used to target the propaganda on the Internet, and this makes them a very effective tool in the wrong hands. At the begin, we have faced cases, where politicians are suspected to send the trolls to their E-mails or social media accounts.

That would seem a very nice method to grow own popularity in the eyes of normal people. So politics is a dirty game, and that means that there are many people, who would use trolls to support their candidate. The messages that are full of hate and treats are a good way to bring publicity and also give a reason to be saying nothing. If that kind of candidate would not come to political discussions the reason could be afraid that something would happen.

When we are thinking about propagandists and their way to work, we are facing really uncertain methodology, where some Internet users are collecting a really big audience by sharing some kind of entertainment stuff on the net. And then they are turning their accounts to the tool of propaganda.

The big audience is a necessary thing for propagandists

The idea of this is that when the propagandist or PSY-OP-operator would start the mission, the information what is shared will get the largest audience, what those people can get. When we are thinking about psychological operations and fake news, there are many ways to accomplish the operation.

One of the things is to use manipulated images, where are connected details, like white powder on the table, by using photo manipulation programs, like Photoshop. Another way is to capture the accounts, which are used by respected journalists. In those cases, the propagandist would try to use the information is always very simple.

Propagandists believe in strong leadership

The data, what is shared is almost every time propped up by using the position as the manager. That means that the propagandists almost every time support the strong leadership, which would give them the chance to influence only one person, and strong leaders are good targets for flatterers. In those cases pleasing the leader is easier than please many people. The thing, what we ever thought or what we ever mentioned in the courses is that also journalists have political opinions. The world is full of people, who believe things like authoritarianism and totalitarianism. Some of those people are journalists. Have you ever visited in the non-democratic country?

There is a so-called official press, and there are people, who are writing stories in those official newspapers. Those people are really problematic because they are writing a very good language, and nobody actually realizes that the information, what those people share is shared without criticism and using one-side sources. The best weapon in the hands of propagandists is the subjective truth. Also in the propaganda weapons and violence are in the big role.

Those people are using many times the images, where the people, who they support are posing with guns, and they would many times tell people that if the comments are involving too much criticism those guns would be used against people, who are criticizing the data.  Violence is a very good way to order other people to keep their mouth shut, and one of the best argument is the neighbor what has 20 million nuclear weapons, and brainwashed military force. If you will irritate the leaders of that country they will attack immediately.

When they are telling about the rapes, they are telling only rapes, what are made by foreigners. And those people are really good to use pity as the weapon. If we would go to some dictatorial country, what goes on war, we would see the bodies of children. And of course, the government tells us that they would be killed by the enemy, but what is the truth? When people are telling something, or they are ordered to do something, we must ask one question, and that is "who is given orders to that thing, and what that person has actually ordered"?

Truth is a complicated thing

The truth is a very complicated thing, and maybe some airstrikes to villages have killed civilians but were there the radio-transmitter in that village. Or was the bombed shelter used the command center? This is a very good point to think about what we see, might be different, what we want to believe. And we always want to believe, that journalists are good people. Sometimes journalists have connections even to organized crime, and that kind of things are really embarrassing.

In the world is many dictators, whose secret police controls the press, and those people are playing reporters. They always have the explanations for everything and in that kind of cases, where the journalists are working as propagandists or troll-makers, they have always a very good way to keep people silent. The thing is that they have their own personal experience with that kind of crimes, and that would be a good way to make people silent.

Social media and the changing role of journalists

Social media and the changing role of journalists

In the point of view of journalists, social media has made their work easier, but otherwise, it has been removed the glory from the reporter's work. In old good times, reporters must move themselves to the place, where something has happened, and wait for the press conference. And after that, they spent their night at the hotel.

This is the thing, what made the work of the reporter so interesting. Today the reporter must just open Twitter, and then that person sees, what some leaders have to tell people, and this is the thing, what makes journalism of today different. Also, normal people can see themselves, what some president has to say, and this is bad for newspapers.

The thing is that in the past the journalists were filtered the information, what was sent to people, and the thing is that the news agencies like Reuters and Tass were in the key role of the business of information sharing. If some journalist made people in the news agencies angry, that could mean that there were no call to press conferences. And this was an excuse for the censorship.

The thing was that both sides must be heard in every case, and if something made somebody angry, that meant that the neutrality of the information was disturbing. Modern social media has brought in front of the people another reality, and that is that many people read things, what they want to read. This is a selective way to use sources. We all make this thing and leave the things, what are supporting our own interest or opinion without notice. But when we are looking at people like journalists, we must remember that they are humans too.

Some propagandists are not governmental 

There is no way to be the absolute neutral while we are writing something or handling data. If we would have political or some other attitudes for some case, we would automatically see things, as we want to see them. And this is the thing, what we must realize. If we are thinking about the political attitudes of the reporters, we must realize, that they also have political and cultural emotions. This means that also so-called professional journalists would have written stories, what is more, or less against the things, what really happened.

Here I must say that the press is a good tool for lobbying things. When we are thinking about the cases, where some reporter has faced the attempts to influence the things, what that inmate has been written, we can remember the cases, where the MC-clubs like Hell's Angels have offered the meal for the reporters, that they would give nicely image to those persons, who are driving with motorbikes with the logo of the club on the back of the vests. That kind of things was really good advertisements for those clubs, and the reporters have faced many times another kind of attempts to influence the information, what they are sharing.

One version is the expensive car, what some "firms" are offered the reporter for the working tool. The car has always been marked that it has been used some director, and the kilometers would be marked after the use. Another version is the free parking permission in the expensive parking houses. Or sometimes some actors of the cases has been offered a good five-star hotel for free, which means that the hotel room has been paid by some company, what is asking some permissions, and sometimes the texts, what the journalists have published have come straight from the public affairs section of the company. In those cases, the reporters have been highlighted the benefits of some action.

And of course, in the war, the propaganda is the very usual tool. When we are thinking about propaganda, one mark of it is that the things, what are published are supporting another side, and another side has only bad things. This is one very good point of view of the information.

Let's think one thing. We are the journalists who are operating in the middle of the crisis. And then the government official brings us to the place, where have been happened the war crime. Then that person would give the governmental and official information about that thing, what might be something like killing children. Would we dare to write anything else to our boss, if we are surrounded by the local militia, what is telling the stories about the war crimes?

And what if that information would be given in the press conference, and the information officer would say, that he has taken us to the place, what is not true. But the men with assault rifles in that room would be real. Then we would write something, and the government official wants to check that information, what we are sending. Then we would go to our motherland, and tell that story to our boss or editor, who tells that the sell of the newspaper has risen.

Disinformation is not a new thing. 

Would that person write to the newspaper, that the situation, where the information was given, was somehow different than the reporter claims? Or would the reporter dare to tell the editor that thing? This is a very good point when we are analyzing the disinformation, and another name of the disinformation is propaganda. When we are looking at the information, what is shared in the press conferences, we must remember that the information, what is shared must be accepted by the keepers of the conference.

And especially in the case of the crisis, the press conferences share only the information, what is serving another side. And that's why we should take the purpose of all of the so-called press conferences more or less propagandist. We should know that all shared data of those press conferences are "cleaned". That means that they share only information, which supports their own benefit.

When we are thinking about social media, we are facing the situation, that the shared data is very one-sided. And the thing what makes this data more one-sided than before is that we are choosing people, who have similar opinions with us to our social media network. This makes social media really good tool for propaganda and other ways there is a massive number of non-relevant information, what means information, what has nothing to do with the thing, what we are looking for. And this is the reason, why we must have to use critics when we are looking for information from the Internet.