Fracking poll on Fox: Don't Waste Your Time!!!! (more about PR)

This is why I caution people not to waste their time on internet polls.

Internet polls are basically a complete waste of time.
Best to ignore them!   Really!!! 

I think Keith Schue is on the right track below,
however,  is not (IMO) sufficiently cynical/skeptical.

• These internet polls are not scientific (e.g., not a random sample).
  
  
• They are TRIVIAL to cheat and ballot-stuff -->
  1: vote, 2: delete cookie, 3: vote again, 4: repeat...
  this can even be automated on a Linux/Unix machine
  so the auto-voting happens unattended.
  
  
• AND WORST OF ALL....!!!
  
  You are all ASSUMING this is legitimate poll
  designed to gather information
  
  when in fact it might be
  a PR stunt designed to alter public perception,
  
  i.e., a PROPAGANDA SERVICE offered by Fox and paid-for by industry.
  
  

I know most of you are all nice, honest and trusting people.

The shocking reality is that THIS IS A WAR.
We, and our way of life are under attack.

We are considered insurgents by industry(*),
and they are using advanced PROPAGANDA TECHNIQUES against us
a/k/a/ Psychological Operations a/k/a/ PSYOPS.

(* e.g., see:  http://www.earthworksaction.org/earthblog/detail/introducing_in_their_own_words_post_1_fracking_biocides_are_just_bleach )


I advise being very skeptical any time the corporate press,
the for-profit press, reports any numbers about the size of
the opposition to toxic heavy industry / mining.
Our numbers are much larger than they report!

Here is something which may shock you:

The corporate press largely serves a role as a vehicle
for industry Advertising and Public Relations role.  (propaganda).

Messages which are inconsistent with, or antagonistic of
industry are suppressed (censorship).

For those who do not know,
there is a historical nexus between

1: The advertising industry
=> clearly a paid message designed to sell a product

2: the Public Relations industry
=> hidden messages designed to promote industry or a candidate

3: military propaganda, psychological operations
=> messages designed to cause submission and surrender of the enemy


If you want to learn more about propaganda and public relations,
I suggest the following resources:

1: "Toxic Sludge is Good for You!" -> by Rampton & Stauber. CLASSIC expose of the PR industry. http://www.prwatch.org/tsigfy.html


2: Information about Edward Bernays (Freud's nephew),  the "Father of Public Relations"      => Influenced Nazi Propagandist Joseph Goebbels

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays
• http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Edward_Bernays
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0OrT-8gXMs

3: Chomsky books: a) The Manufacture of Consent, and b) Necessary Illusions.

There are two very different versions of the first book. The first is a classic book and is subtitled: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, co-authored with Edward Hermann.

However, I recommend getting  "Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media"
which is a book version of a film about Chomsky. And the film itself (by Mark Achbar,
the guy who produced "The Corporation") http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5631882395226827730

4: Become "Media Literate" -- learn the tools of manipulation.
Here is an excellent page about rhetoric and logicial fallacies
which are the basic tools of PR and propaganda:

• A great page which visualizes the most common form of fallacies:
  http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/rhetological-fallacies/
  
  
• A great site about logic, rhetoric, and critical thinking, with several audio and video podcasts:
  
  http://www.criticalthinkeracademy.com/2010/tct-007-the-5-essential-components-of-critical-thinking-part-1-logic-vs-argumentation/
  

I am starting to organize a free/open-source course on media literacy which I will be announcing on this list soon, focusing on how to decypher the PR techniques of the gas industry.

For now, check out a Five Year Timeline on Gas Industry PR-Spin:
http://williamahuston.blogspot.com/2012/04/five-year-timeline-of-gas-industry-spin.html


BH

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 2:41 AM, Keith Schue <keithschue@yahoo.com> wrote:

 

It is not only to be expected among Fox viewers, but of FoxNews itself--whose mission is to manufacture and manipulate news for its underwriters as much as to report it. The only reason this survey is even happening is because the results were assured to favor industry.

 

This is how it works....

 

1. Someone associated with the fracking industry hatches a plan involving several employees gathered together with instructions to spend the day voting online until their fingers hurt. FoxNews is then told to conduct an online survey.

2. FoxNews happily obliges and the survey produces the intended outcome.

3. FoxNews announces the results as if it means something really important about the public's "growing support for hydrofracking".

4. The frackers smile.

From: Sandy Podulka <sgp4@cornell.edu>
To: ROUSE <t-rouse@googlegroups.com>; Shaleshock-yahoogroups.com <Shaleshock@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 12:04 AM
Subject: [Shaleshock] Fracking poll on Fox: Please Vote

 

The "no's" are way ahead, which is to be expected among Fox viewers, I guess....

From Martha Robertson:

Fox News Poll: Does Fracking Pollute Well Water?

    The Fox News website is currently running a poll which asks the question: Do you believe 'fracking' pollutes well water?

PLEASE VOTE!

    http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/04/11/do-believe-fracking-pollutes-well-water/

  

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