Thursday, May 03, 2012
"Headlines Control the Narrative. Guess Who Controls the Headlines?"
I've seen this methodology at work for quite some time now.
If you're a "headline only" reader, you probably don't really know what's going on...
If you're a "headline only" reader, you probably don't really know what's going on...
Tom Blumer recently wrote about it at PJmedia.com:
"There’s a new and largely overlooked problem in this election cycle: Story headlines have become more powerful than ever. That’s because far more people than in 2008 are getting their 'news' from headline feeds sent to computers, smart phones (46% of all wireless phones), and tablets (34 million users). Even avid news consumers with busy lives won’t go to what’s behind most of the headlines they see on these devices — and when they do, especially given the limited real estate on their screens, they will rarely read past the opening paragraph or two.This is a serious concern because the aforementioned propagandists, with special assistance from certain leftist outlets, have a virtual lock on these feeds. As I see it, their privileged access has given them extraordinary power this time around to influence the political and cultural narrative — and they have learned how to abuse it."
