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Saturday, May 9, 2015

Mainstream Fearmongering How the Media Helps ISIS Spread its Propaganda

Mainstream Fearmongering

How the Media Helps ISIS Spread its Propaganda

by BEN NORTON
Like many of the fascist and extremist groups that came before it in history, ISIS is skilled with propaganda. Its videos are highly doctored and rife with special effects. It has its own 24-hour TV channel, , and even merchandise. ISIS has a brand that it is marketing, as a corporation or even government does.
The central idea in ISIS’ propaganda strategy is to make itself look like a huge, omnipresent global threat when it is in fact relatively small and isolated. The corporate media, whether wittingly or not, helps it to do this.


http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/05/08/how-the-media-helps-isis-spread-its-propaganda/?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-the-media-helps-isis-spread-its-propaganda

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