The Treyvon/Zimmerman Disinformation Campaign

[Beckman]

http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/..._campaign.html

The Trayvon campaign is accurately described as "disinformation" because deception is a fundamental part of its planning, strategy, and implementation. Leftist disinformation campaigns are common but not widely understood. This article is intended to make them easier to recognize, and to provide a framework for additional research and investigation. Whether or not George Zimmerman was justified in pulling the trigger is outside the scope of this analysis.

Strategy

Social science research offers some useful insights into how people typically make decisions:

•Reasoning is only a small part of forming opinions or judgments
•Judgments are often based on inadequate information
•Early and negative information has a disproportionally heavy impact
•Anecdotal, easy-to-remember information is also overly weighted
Therefore, disinformation campaigns use simple, powerful, negative, emotional arguments that tell a story. Since people resist changing their minds about emotionally loaded topics, the media campaign has to ramp up quickly, before the facts have a chance to catch up to the narrative.

The narrative launched in mid-March with nearly simultaneous articles by black journalists at major leftist media outlets: Ta-Nehisi Coates at the Atlantic, Charles M. Blow at the New York Times, and Trymaine Lee at the Huffington Post. These were classics of advocacy journalism -- sensationalist propaganda with no attempt to be impartial, objective, or accurate. Al Sharpton repeated and amplified the reports on his daily TV show at MSNBC. The national media instantly adopted the story, devoting hour after hour to the narrative and its white racism theme, with little balance or analysis. The massive media support helped turn a local shooting into the most important story in America -- one that would dominate the news cycle for two weeks.

A central goal of the Trayvon campaign is to focus the manufactured anger and outrage over Martin's death on the imagined racism of America's legal system, fueling a wave of political activism. To do this, the organizers must persuade the public that a chance encounter between two individuals proves the racism theme and has global implications. Objectively, this makes little sense: "A Hispanic man killed a black teenager in Florida, and no charges were filed. Racism is therefore rampant in America, and we must change the system." The fallacies don't matter. Disinformation campaigns are about emotional manipulation, not rational thinking.

[0302]

hitler, goebbels, stalin, mao have plowed this field before. propaganda is slive & well. bill donovan in "a man called intrepid" warned of this.

[308bolt]

The Treyvon/Zimmerman Disinformation Campaign

No big surprise we have a Republican primary that's being powered the same way.

[martin35]

There is "them" and then there is "us" or as I like to say "me".

[101ABN327]

I don't even care about this anymore. After I heard Obonzo say "if I had a son he'd look alike a boomer gangbanger" I was out. Now it's just another excuse for the boomers to say"da man be keeping me down..."

[Bawana jim]

The goal seems to be to stir up some riots an mayhem so they can spin it all for Obamas re-election. Bill Clinton got re-elected even after impeachment due to Oaklahoma City. The left is going to raise hell again and hope voters can be scared into voting for bummer.

[sandnyerface]

Originally Posted by 101ABN327

After I heard Obonzo say "if I had a son he'd look alike a boomer gangbanger" I was out.

Is that what he said? I thought Obonzo said "If I had a son, he would be named Stanley after my mother".