{"id":4559,"date":"2018-02-24T00:57:57","date_gmt":"2018-02-24T00:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/socialpanic.org\/?p=4559"},"modified":"2018-02-24T00:57:57","modified_gmt":"2018-02-24T00:57:57","slug":"interesting-example-of-how-propaganda-messaging-lives-forever-and-is-recycled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2018\/02\/24\/interesting-example-of-how-propaganda-messaging-lives-forever-and-is-recycled\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting example of how propaganda messaging lives forever and is recycled"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The senator [Sanders] from Vermont says 40 percent of guns are sold without a background check.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Washington Post notes the figure came from a small survey in 1993\/1994 before major changes in gun laws. The latest data indicate it is 13%, not 40%. But remember, the first propaganda message someone hears is the one that sticks &#8211; undoubtedly this figure has stuck with Sanders for a quarter century.<br \/>\nSource: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/fact-checker\/wp\/2018\/02\/20\/bernie-sanders-resurrects-a-zombie-claim-on-gun-sales-without-background-checks\/\">Bernie Sanders resurrects a \u2018zombie\u2019 claim on gun sales without background checks &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a><br \/>\nThis works as propaganda due to its &#8220;Appeal to Authority&#8221; (Bernie Sanders says) and its quotation of numbers. Quoting <a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/?s=numbers&amp;submit=Search\">numbers<\/a> lends legitimacy to messaging. They do not even need to be correct. A friend who once worked in sales said he frequently made up numbers while meeting with potential customers: 7<em>0% of our customers see increased productivity!<\/em><br \/>\nBernie Sanders has done this before too &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2016\/02\/07\/sanders-shows-how-to-tell-a-lie-using-only-true-statements\/\">using old data that is no longer true to assert his point<\/a>. He does this because this is an effective way to propagandize targets &#8211; it combines assertion, appeal to authority, and lying. The lie has plausible deniability because the claim was at least true once upon a time in the past. Because targets may remember the old, but no longer correct number, the assertion sounds believable.<br \/>\n<em>Disclaimer<\/em>: This post is not pro- or anti-gun control efforts. This post is about a common propaganda method using assertion, appeal to authority, the use of a number to lend authenticity and using out of date data. An online political survey I took in 2016 said\u00a0 Sander&#8217;s campaign platform mostly closely matched the issues of interest to me. I did not vote for him because I did not belong to a political party and was not eligible to vote in the 2016 primary election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The senator [Sanders] from Vermont says 40 percent of guns are sold without a background check. The Washington Post notes the figure came from a small survey in 1993\/1994 before major changes in gun laws. The latest data indicate it is 13%, not 40%. But remember, the first propaganda message someone hears is the one that sticks &#8211; undoubtedly this figure has stuck with Sanders for a quarter century. Source: Bernie Sanders resurrects a \u2018zombie\u2019 claim on gun sales without&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2018\/02\/24\/interesting-example-of-how-propaganda-messaging-lives-forever-and-is-recycled\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,10,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appeal-to-authority","category-assertion","category-civil-rights","category-lies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}