Messing With Our Minds: The Ever Finer Line Between News and Advertising

Kingsley Dennis @ Truthout - The manufacturing of consent is endemic within modern societies. Throughout history, the need to "persuade and influence" has always been manipulated by those people in power as a means to maintain authority and legitimacy. In more recent years, the overall manipulation of the mass public mind has become less about making speeches and more about becoming a pervasive presence within the lives of each individual.  Read more.