Spotting Intentional Manipulation

Mass Media is a Psychological Operation

Welcome, once again, into the asylum, my dear readers. Almost all of you know that we no longer have much news in America or in the world, just a series of psyops designed to keep us docile, controlled, distracted, and divided. This is largely achieved because nearly all mainstream TV stations, radio stations, and newspapers in the entire country are owned by just six companies (here) and the majority stake holder in each and every media giant is a company called BlackRock or a company called Vanguard. BlackRock is publicly traded, while Vanguard is privately held. This is interesting because as a publicly held company Blackrock is subject to much more scrutiny and regulation of its books and dealings, having to make them public, whereas as a privately held company Vanguard has no such requirements. I say this is interesting because Vanguard owns Blackrock, or at least a majority stake in the company. Ultimately, one company owns a majority stake in all of the mainstream media.

This becomes frighteningly obvious when every local news agency across the country use the exact same script to report on events even when they are allegedly using different sources (here, here, and here). ABC, CBS, FOX, and NBC all use the same script. While this appears to have been a blatant attempt at manipulation by the Sinclair Media group, it highlights the danger of centralized control of information. While this was very ham-handed, I assure you there are many only slightly less absurd manipulations playing out almost every day in the mainstream media. Half of what I write is targeted at pointing out how we are lied to and how both the government and media are controlled by the same globalist interests.

I was asked the other day how I knew what the media was selling with COVID was garbage by April 2020 and how I seem to be so good at sorting fact from garbage in the media. As I was explaining it to them it occurred to me I have never explained it to you, my faithful readers. There is a tool used by intelligence agencies, advertising agencies, and many other organizations called the NCI Engineered Reality Scoring System (the system). This is used both to identify psychological operations of opponents and to score your own psychological operations to predict their effectiveness.

The system uses a five-point scale across twenty categories with a five being overwhelmingly present and a one being not present at all. The categories are:

1. Timing

2. Emotional Manipulation

3. Uniform Messaging

4. Missing Information

5. Simplistic Narratives

6. Tribal Division

7. Authority Overload

8. Call for Urgent Action

9. Overuse of Novelty

10. Financial/Political Gain

11. Suppression of Dissent

12. False Dilemmas