https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRvC3MJf/
This is a Tiktok video (6:18) made by a professional copywriter (user @howtowritecopy on Tiktok) showing all of us how journalists can use specific language to make us empathize or not empathize with victims of violence. She takes two headlines from the past few months and compares them.
Even if you know propaganda is happening and you know some of the tricks they use to manipulate the masses, you are still susceptible. The people producing these media pieces have been trained by experts in how to make you look away and stop paying attention when it suits them.
As consumers of news media, it is absolutely essential that we all learn these techniques to allow us to critically analyze the information we are given in order to know what they want us to think. This way, we can resist their chosen narratives and understand more accurately what is really going on.
This is so, so so important. If you can, please take a few minutes out of your day to learn things that our institutions don't want us to know. I hope you find it as informative as I did!
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