2023-11-15
The ways in the public can be manipulated by the media are legion, but one particularly insidious method is by the introduction of new phraseology that linguistically guides our thoughts in a specific direction.
Of course this technique can be used for good and for ill - but only the privileged "thought leaders" of the press, politicians and pundits have the prerequisite penetration to promulgate such phraseology across an unprepared public.
Is there a term for this? Maybe there is.
It's a topic of which we should all be aware, and cultivate some understanding - the first step toward countering such influence must surely be to understand it, recognise it, and perhaps to turn it to our advantage. After all, "all's fair in love and war".
"When certain language practices are altered ... they can actually shut down ... assumptions about freedom and accountability, and thus close down expectations of political representation and individual rights"
The Independent Institute leads us into the quagmire.
