As we are seeing around the world, democracy is a fragile. The biggest threat in the US and the rest of the Western World comes from the media. We know about Cambridge Analytica in the US Election, the influence of Russia through manipulating social media in the UK and US. The growth of right wing shock jocks and new stations like GB News that have a clear right wing agenda.
In Northern Ireland The Nolan Show on BBC is distorting ours.
I worked in advertising for forty years. It is all about influencing people, changing their behaviour, promoting one brand or product over another. There is literally hundreds of billions spent every year to motivate and on occasion manipulate our behaviour. Yet most people will claim that advertising doesn’t work on them. Why? Because they don’t understand how it works. Advertising does not make people leap from the sofa when…
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