{"id":46206,"date":"2019-05-18T07:28:39","date_gmt":"2019-05-18T12:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46206"},"modified":"2019-05-18T07:28:42","modified_gmt":"2019-05-18T12:28:42","slug":"cultural-schizophrenia-us-media-no-longer-reports-facts-but-appeals-to-emotions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46206","title":{"rendered":"“Cultural Schizophrenia”: US Media No Longer Reports Facts, But Appeals to Emotions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cCULTURAL SCHIZOPHRENIA\u201d: US MEDIA NO LONGER REPORTS FACTS, BUT APPEALS TO EMOTIONS<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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The mainstream media in the United States has made a shift in the past few decades.  Now, they appeal to emotions as opposed to reporting the facts. This \u201ccultural schizophrenia\u201d is tearing the U.S. apart at the seams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Based on the conclusions to a RAND Corporation<\/a> study, the mainstream media is actively sowing discord in American society, award-winning journalist Chris Hedges tells RT<\/em><\/a>. The media is focusing on making two sides hate each other instead of reporting on the facts, and the majority of the public is unaware and doesn\u2019t care that their minds are being manipulated by their own emotional responses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The study<\/a>, which was released by RAND earlier this week, states that between 1987 and 2017, news content has shifted from event- and context-based reporting to coverage that is \u201c<\/em>more subjective, relies more heavily on argumentation and advocacy, and includes more emotional appeals.<\/a>\u201d According to RT<\/em>,<\/a>  prime-time cable news shows and online journalism lead the way in this shift to emotional and hate-based rhetoric.<\/a> It has been noticed in print journalism as well, the government-funded think tank concluded. This is contributing to what RAND termed \u201cTruth Decay.\u201d<\/em> This is described as a shift away from facts and analysis in public discourse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hedges claims that the deterioration of the mainstream media is \u201cfar worse\u201d than the RAND report suggests. And he isn\u2019t alone in that assessment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[American journalist Matt]Taibbi says that the result of this journalistic decay and emotional fear mongering is a public addicted to hating each other.<\/strong>Americans have become addicted to the news that agrees with their bias, and it was set up that way on purpose. The only thing anyone will hear when they turn on the news are stories specifically crafted to manufacture outrage, make you hate the other side, and fuel the addiction to anger.<\/strong> \u2013SHTFPlan<\/em><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cCULTURAL SCHIZOPHRENIA\u201d: US MEDIA NO LONGER REPORTS FACTS, BUT APPEALS TO EMOTIONS The mainstream media in the United States has made a shift in the past few decades.  Now, they appeal to emotions as opposed to reporting the facts. This \u201ccultural schizophrenia\u201d is tearing the U.S. apart at the seams. Based on the conclusions to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[25892,2851,512],"class_list":["post-46206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-cultural-schizophrenia","tag-emotions","tag-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46207,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46206\/revisions\/46207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}