Media Manipulation

1. Media Manipulation
Carlos Pietri Garcia
English 111
Prof. Pablo Fernandez Colon

3. What is Media manipulation?
• Changing context
• Intertwining
• Lying
• Hiding information
• Confusing masses
• Deceiving information

4. What is Suppression by Omission?
• Most common technique
• Things left unmentioned
• Vital information kept secret

5. What is Framing?
• Bending the truth
• Using empathy
• Giving too much importance
or none
• Headlines

6. Repetition makes true.
Repeating the story over and over media
might get the audience to believe it’s true.

7. Make de Devil look like God and
God Like the Devil.
• Attacker makes himself look
like the savior
• Media makes themselves look
like protectors

8. Make de Devil look like God and
God Like the Devil.
Hitler himself said, “By the skillful
and sustained use of propaganda,
one can make people see even
heaven as hell or an extremely
wretched life as paradise.”

9. What is The strategy of distraction?
• Powerful element of social control
• Diverts public attention
• Flooding continuous distractions
• Insignificant information

10. Create problems, then offer
solutions
• Problem -reaction- solution
• Creates a problem
• Bring up solutions

11. What is Censorship?
• Limiting information
• Intimidating, blackmailing, assaulting,
arresting, torturing, and killing opposition
journalists
• Silence dissenting voices

12. Conclusion:

13. Questions?

14. REFERENCES:
http://media-alliance.org/article.php?id=510
http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2012/02/06/media-
manipulation-of-the-masses-how-the-media-psychologically-
manipulates/
http://theinternationalcoalition.blogspot.com/2011/07/noam-
chomsky-top-10-media-manipulation_08.html
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanholiday/2012/07/16/what-is-
media-manipulation-a-definition-and-
explanation/#1acc60153fc6
http://www.resurgentdictatorship.org/authoritarian-
tactics/manipulating-media/
http://www.voicesofyouth.org/es/posts/media-manipulation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo_9Hlq8LgE