How They Change Your Mind

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#1. Over One Million Iraqi Deaths Caused by US Occupation # 2 Security and Prosperity Partnership: Militarized NAFTA # 3 InfraGard: The FBI ...

How to Read a Newspaper for National and International News To take command of the way the mass media influence your thinking about the worl...

#1 No Habeas Corpus for “Any Person” #2 Bush Moves Toward Martial Law # 3 AFRICOM: US Military Control of Africa’s Resources # 4 Frenzy of I...

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from treehugger : "We have complained before about ad creep, how the public realm is being taken over by private marketers. I don’t kno...

Some of the biggest advertisers are taking their advertising away from full page ads and television spots and spending up on hidden persuasi...

Propaganda by Edward Bernays (1928) : "THE conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is...

Why you might soon think you're hearing things : "A technology that beams sound directly into people's ears has advertisers sal...

Media's Military Analysts Involved in "Psyops on Steroids" | Center for Media and Democracy : "In early 2002, as 'det...

Embedding Military Propagandists into the News Media | Center for Media and Democracy : "David Barstow of the New York Times has writte...

Neuromarketing: the ad-man's ultimate tool : "Neuroscience and marketing had a love child a few years back. Its name - big surprise...

Media's Geographical Bias - Interactive Map : "" These maps allow you to grasp several media trends at a glance. First, tradit...

To Aim Ads, Web Is Keeping Closer Eye on You - New York Times : "A new analysis of online consumer data shows that large Web companies ...

This Course Brought to You By.... :: Inside Higher Ed :: Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education : "" Heidi, of course, i...

Nielsen Making Brain Waves - Commercial Alert : "The Nielsen Co. is to announce today a strategic investment in and alliance with Neuro...

Science Sensei : "As the researchers wrote in the December issue of the Journal of Consumer Research, 'Salespersons may increase th...

Burson-Marsteller To Help Blackwater out of Hot Water | Center for Media and Democracy : "Blackwater USA has hired the PR firm Burson-M...

This Is Your Brain on Advertising : "This Is Your Brain on Advertising Neuromarketers use sophisticated brain-imaging technology to tes...

Free Press : FCC's VNR Fine: More to Come? : "FCC’s VNR Fine: More to Come? The FCC’s proposed $4,000 fine last week against Comcas...

Pudding Media eavesdrops on internet calls, displays relevant ads - Engadget : "Pudding Media, a California-based startup, is opening u...

Reviews of The Shock Doctrine | Naomi Klein : "Naomi Klein's new book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, tells t...

The Formula for Deceiving Mothers Online | Center for Media and Democracy : "Source: Mothering Magazine, September/October 2007 Peggy O...

LEAKS: Enterprise Store's Insurance Upsell Cheat Sheet - Consumerist : "At least one Enterprise rental place has a cheat sheet for ...

Recruiting smell for the hard sell - New Scientist : "THE AIR in Samsung's flagship electronics store on the upper west side of Man...

Asset Protection BLOG - Mark Nestmann: What's Worse than a National ID? How About a Global One? : " the infrastructure for a global...

Ad Creep: NFL Says Sideline Photographers Will Have To Wear "Advertising" Vests - Consumerist : "The NFL says that sideline p...

Amazon.com: War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death: Books: Norman Solomon : "Media critic Solomon (Target ...

Library Chronicles : "Here are some excerpts from The Decline of Broadcast News a report issued by the Writers' Guild of America. ...

How corporations still control the marketing conversation : "A group of prominent technology bloggers last month found themselves in h...

The Spin Doctor Will See You Now : "" "If I had to do it all over again, I don't think I would use the Ontario system,...

Ten things 2007 - a class with Michael Shanks about design: Analysis of Casino Design : "A prodigious amount of thought goes into the d...

Amazon.com: Branded Entertainment: Product Placement & Brand Strategy in the Entertainment Business: Books: Jean-Marc Lehu : "Brand...

The hidden hybrid PR coup - Agenda Inc. LiveFeed : "There's a reason you may be considering buying a gas-electric hybrid vehicle - ...

Concentration in media ownership continues : "Over the last few decades, the number of media companies dominating mainstream media has ...

What Would Mother Say? : "In case you missed it this week, one of the biggest stories to surface on the ethics front (at least to my mi...

Putting Lipstick On A Dictator : "Putting Lipstick On A Dictator News: Rogue states hire PR firms to change public perception and win a...

Amazon.com: Who's Watching You?: The Chilling Truth About the State, Surveillance, and Personal Freedom (Conspiracy Books): Books: Mick ...

Quit Smoking Support > Tobacco Giant's 'School Of Cool' Recruits Young Smokers : "British American Tobacco executives ga...

Media Conglomerates, Mergers, Concentration of Ownership - Global Issues : "The idea of corporate media itself may not be a bad thing, ...

The marketers have your ear - Agenda Inc. LiveFeed : "Advertisers have a new way to get into your head. Marketers around the world are ...

15 ways stores trick you into spending - MSN Money : "Ever notice how you can go to a store to pick up just one thing and then, by the ...

Army Propoganda Hearings: Threatening the Troops : "The last soldier to see Army Ranger Pat Tillman alive, Spc. Bryan O'Neal, told ...

"The Catalogue" CHRIS OAKLEY - VIDEO ARTIST : "Crystallising a vision of ‘us seen by them’, The Catalogue explores the codifi...

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Iraq: Why the media failed | Salon : "It's no secret that the period of time between 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq represents one o...

Augmented Cognition : "Applications of Augmented Cognition The applications of Augmented Cognition research are numerous, and although ...

Media in the United States - Global Issues : "Media omissions, distortion, inaccuracy and bias in the US is something acknowledged by m...

The ongoing controversy over video news releases has not stopped television stations from airing the fake news segments without attribution....

We Know What You Want: How They Change Your Mind .: BookPleasures.com : "This is a first-rate gem of a book. It is really easy to read....

USATODAY.com - Product placement you can't escape it : "To hype the fall TV season, CBS plastered pictures of its shows' stars ...

KidScreen Magazine : "KidScreen is a monthly business magazine serving the information needs and interests of all those involved in rea...

Scary Evidence - Center for Media and Democracy : "British Columbia's Deputy Minister of Health, Gordon Macatee, ordered a lunchtim...

Architecural Tricks To Control Users : "Ever wandered into a shop looking to buy a few things on your list, only to find yourself comin...

Increasingly, many products are being designed with features that intentionally restrict the way the user can behave, or enforce certain mod...

Advertising Age - Research Team Develops Shopping-Cart Ad System : " Each video screen is embedded with an RFID chip that interacts wit...

Product Placement in Superman Returns : "As Superman returns from a five-year sabbatical to find himself, Metropolis is buzzing with S...

Bloggers are getting paid to push products. : "Murphy is launching PayPerPost.com, which will automate such hookups between advertisers...

Media Manipulation - Global Issues : "The media is manipulated in all manners, for example through professional public relations (PR), ...

'Reality-based product placement' is here. The car maker Jaguar's new marketing strategy is to give 'its high-end cars to je...

The Tangled Web of Doctors, Drug Companies and Charities : " 'Around the country, doctors in private practice have set up tax-exemp...

"White House News Forgeries Widespread" : "To a viewer, each report looked like any other 90-second segment on the local news...

Comic books the next frontier for product placement - AdJab : "Comic books the next frontier for product placementPosted Apr 19th 2006 ...

Independent Online Edition > Americas : "Federal authorities are actively investigating dozens of American television stations for b...

"Fake TV News" Report Now in PDF Form : " With the U.S. Federal Communications Commission investigating the television stati...

I Sold It Through The Grapevine : "Not even small talk is sacred anymore. P&G has enlisted a stealth army of 600,000 moms who chat...

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Astroturf site from telcos' PR company against Net Neutrality : " Cory Doctorow : Astroturf site from telcos' PR company agains...

MaxedOutBuzz.com - Home : "Maxed Out shows how the modern financial industry really works, explains the true definition of "prefer...

Covert Recruiting Video in Schools, on Planes and TV : " One Navy officer profiled in ' Today's Military ,' who's a lia...

An Island in the Media Stream: "Most of these releases are aimed at adult readers, and while they contain ideas that may be useful in ...

Military Plays Up Role of Zarqawi : "The U.S. military is conducting a propaganda campaign to magnify the role of the leader of al-Qaed...

Who is behind "Al Qaeda in Iraq"? Pentagon acknowledges fabricating a "Zarqawi Legend" : "Pentagon PSYOP Zarqawi P...

Web Site Rates Health Care Journalism - Yahoo! News : "Newspaper and magazine health coverage will be reviewed online at a new Web site...

Video Downloads: Video News Releases Examples of actual VNRs. While these 36 examples represent less than one percent of VNRs offered to ...

Fake TV News: Widespread and Undisclosed - Center for Media and Democracy : "Fake TV News: Widespread and Undisclosed A multime...

Mass Media : "a 10-page summary of revealing accounts by 20 award-winning journalists from the book Into the Buzzsaw, compiled Kristina...

On TV News, the Ads Never End (Part Two) : " 'With TV stations facing increased competition and pressure on advertising revenue ......

The Catalogue : "This is great! This excellent independent video production looks like the not too distant future of tagged humans and ...

Bush's State of Propaganda Speech : "r. Bush threw out a dizzying array of misleading analogies, propaganda slogans and false choic...

MIT Brand Culture Convergence: Blog : "Writers Guild of America that pushes for limits on product placement has launched a Subservient ...

Think Tanks Compassionate Conservativism : " As the toll mounts from U.S. political scandals, think tanks have provided new homes to s...

Pentagon OK's Online Propaganda - Center for Media and Democracy : "'U.S. military websites that pay journalists to write artic...

Influence Peddlers Pass Out Billions in Washington : "Special interests and the lobbyists they employ have reported spending, since 199...

It Was a Very False Year: The 2005 Falsies Awards - Center for Media and Democracy : "Over the past twelve months, the ideal of accurat...

Neuropop Sound Design: "We can change your mind" NeuroPop's exclusive Neurosensory Algorithms (NSA) are the heart of our sound...

Buying Fox News : "'Saudi Prince al-Waleed bin Talal boasted in Dubai earlier this week about his ability to change the news conten...

Giving Up the Ghostwriters - Center for Media and Democracy : "'Many of the articles that appear in scientific journals under the b...

The Submarine : "'Suits make a corporate comeback,' says the New York Times. Why does this sound familiar? Maybe because the ...