{"id":11262,"date":"2012-06-07T08:45:49","date_gmt":"2012-06-07T13:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=11262"},"modified":"2012-06-07T08:49:23","modified_gmt":"2012-06-07T13:49:23","slug":"malcolm-gladwell-unmasked-a-look-into-the-life-work-of-americas-most-successful-propagandist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2012\/06\/07\/malcolm-gladwell-unmasked-a-look-into-the-life-work-of-americas-most-successful-propagandist\/","title":{"rendered":"Malcolm Gladwell Unmasked: A Look Into the Life &#038; Work of America\u2019s Most Successful Propagandist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The article <a title=\"Naked Capitalism article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2012\/06\/malcolm-gladwell-unmasked-a-look-into-the-life-work-of-americas-most-successful-propagandist.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Malcolm Gladwell Unmasked: A Look Into the Life &amp; Work of America\u2019s Most Successful Propagandist \u00ab naked capitalism:<\/strong><\/a> might come as a severe shock to liberal fans of Malcolm Gladwell.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the vast ecosystem of corporate shills, which one is the most effective? Propaganda works best when it is not perceived as propaganda: nuance, obfuscation, distraction, suggestion, the subtle introduction of doubt\u2014these are more effective in the long run than shotgun blasts of lies. The master of this approach is Malcolm Gladwell.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I only read about \u2154 of this article before I said to myself, &#8220;OK, I get the point.&#8221;\u00a0 For those with more stamina than I have, could you please let me know if I missed something?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The article Malcolm Gladwell Unmasked: A Look Into the Life &amp; Work of America\u2019s Most Successful Propagandist \u00ab naked capitalism: might come as a severe shock to liberal fans of Malcolm Gladwell. In the vast ecosystem of corporate shills, which one is the most effective? Propaganda works best when it is not perceived as propaganda: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11262","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11262"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11264,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11262\/revisions\/11264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}