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, Telamon wrote: In article , starman wrote: Telamon wrote: The short wave reception has been much improved the last few days in contrast to the news group which seems to keep getting worse. In all honesty you often contribute to the problem by responding to the OT posts, particularly the political ones. How about exercising more self control. Typical unhelpful post by Starman. Well you are entitled to your opinion but you are wrong. I post the reason that I'm Plonking them and that it. I don't argue with them, which is the problem with many people in the group like you. I all the reasonable people would follow my example then the Trolls would leave or at the least have no effect. "If all" -- Telamon Ventura, California |
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bpnjensen wrote:
Anyway, the music is better on RHC I find that for great Cuban music, R. Rebelde is about tops...but RHC is fine too. Ry Cooder did some really superb recordings there a while back. mike |
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"ShortwaveMan" wrote in
ink.net: We do put out propaganda - plenty of it: enough to employ a stable boy full time for the rest of his life. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...M/103-4904152- 4251815 911, WMD (actually, we use this most often, Weapon of Mass Deception), "Operation Iraqi Freedom", "coalition of the willing", Democracy in the U.S., free elections, etc. Visit the following link, for an unbiased dissertation on Propaganda, the word. Anyone that believes that the U.S. is not actively involved in propaganda, I have some prime seaside land for sale on mars. It's quite juvenile to assert that the U.S. is somehow as pure as the wind driven snow concerning propaganda. Please visit the link and see how propaganda has shaped history over the ages. Plenty of pictures for those of you that are alphanumerically challenged. Dr. Artaud http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda "Propaganda is a specific type of message presentation aimed at serving an agenda. At its root, the denotation of propaganda is 'to propagate (actively spread) a philosophy or point of view'. The most common use of the term (historically) is in political contexts; in particular to refer to certain efforts sponsored by governments or political groups. The aim of propaganda is to actively influence people's opinions, rather than to merely communicate the facts about something. For example, propaganda might be used to garner either support or disapproval of a certain position, rather than to simply present the position. What separates propaganda from "normal" communication is in the subtle, often insidious, ways that the message attempts to shape opinion. For example, propaganda is often presented in a way that attempts to deliberately evoke a strong emotion, especially by suggesting non-logical (or non- intuitive) relationships between concepts. An appeal to one's emotions is, perhaps, more obvious a propaganda method than utilized by some other less overt and perhaps even more insidious forms. For instance, propaganda may be transmitted implicitly. Propaganda can be transmitted as the presupposition or presuppositions within an ostensibly fair and balanced debate or argument. This can be done to great effect in conjunction with a broadcast news format. Here is an example of a hypothetical situation in which the opposing view points are supposedly represented: the hawk (see: hawkish) says, "we must stay the course", and the dove says, "The war is a disaster and a failure", to which the hawk responds, "In war things seldom go smoothly and we must not let set backs affect our determination", the dove retorts, "setbacks are setbacks, but, failures are failures." As one can see, the actual validity of the war is not discussed and is never in contention. In giving the appearance of representing opposing positions and view points, a debate (of what is really aspects of the actual, genuine, argument worthy issue) in which the debaters argue from the same basic assumptions, implicitly inculcates the presupposition(s) as sacrosanct truth, thus, establishing it as an accepted fact about the given issue for ignorant observers. The method of propaganda is essential to the word's meaning as well. A message does not have to be untrue to qualify as propaganda. In fact, the message in modern propaganda is often not blatantly untrue. But even if the message conveys only "true" information, it will generally contain partisan bias and fail to paint a complete and balanced picture. Another common characteristic of propaganda is volume (in the sense of a large amount). For example, a propagandist may seek to influence opinion by attempting to get a message heard in as many places as possible, and as often as possible. The intention of this approach is to a) reinforce an idea through repetition, and b) drown-out or exclude any alternative ideas. In English, the word "propaganda" usually carries strong negative (as well as political) connotations. This is not necessarily so in other languages, and usage of the term may lead to misunderstanding in communications with non-native English speakers. For example, in Brazil and some Spanish language speaking countries, particularly in the Southern Cone, the word "propaganda" usually means the most common manipulation of information—"advertising."" |
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Telamon wrote:
In article , starman wrote: Telamon wrote: The short wave reception has been much improved the last few days in contrast to the news group which seems to keep getting worse. In all honesty you often contribute to the problem by responding to the OT posts, particularly the political ones. How about exercising more self control. Typical unhelpful post by Starman. Well you are entitled to your opinion but you are wrong. I post the reason that I'm Plonking them and that it. I don't argue with them, which is the problem with many people in the group like you. I all the reasonable people would follow my example then the Trolls would leave or at the least have no effect. -- Telamon Ventura, California Typical, unhelpful? Virtually all of my posts are on topic. You won't find more than a handful where I replied to OT threads. You made hundreds of OT posts during the pre-election weeks. ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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Since the Vulcans vulcanized Vulcan,Vucans can not vote,Period.
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