{"id":16928,"date":"2014-04-23T10:29:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T14:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=16928"},"modified":"2014-04-23T10:32:38","modified_gmt":"2014-04-23T14:32:38","slug":"noam-chomsky-helps-explain-the-fox-effect-in-upcoming-film-brainwashing-of-my-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2014\/04\/23\/noam-chomsky-helps-explain-the-fox-effect-in-upcoming-film-brainwashing-of-my-dad\/","title":{"rendered":"Noam Chomsky helps explain the \u2018Fox Effect\u2019 in upcoming film \u2018Brainwashing of my Dad\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Raw Story<\/em> has the article <a title=\"The Raw Story article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2014\/04\/22\/noam-chomsky-helps-explain-the-fox-effect-in-upcoming-film-brainwashing-of-my-dad\/\" target=\"_blank\">Noam Chomsky helps explain the \u2018Fox Effect\u2019 in upcoming film \u2018Brainwashing of my Dad\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Writer and documentarian Jen Senko has released a trailer for the film \u201cThe Brainwashing of my Dad,\u201d in which she explores her father\u2019s political conversion from lifelong Democrat into angry, ultra-conservative talk radio listener.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: thick ridge #009900;\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Qh3TeTxgNVo?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>The trailer has an excellent teaser that will make me want to see this documentary when it comes out. She promises to tell us how the victim can be deprogrammed.<\/p>\n<p>As I watched the segment about how the listening to talk radio is usually done alone, it struck me how close this interaction was to hypnotism. I found a <a title=\"Comment on the article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2014\/04\/22\/noam-chomsky-helps-explain-the-fox-effect-in-upcoming-film-brainwashing-of-my-dad\/#comment-1351447082\" target=\"_blank\">comment<\/a> that addressed this very point.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>overdoneputaforkinit<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Regarding the comments that say there is something hypnotic going on with Fox news. The famous hypnotist Milton Erickson described his &#8220;yes set&#8221; or piggy back principle. One tells the something they are compelled to agree with. That is, they would not disagree due to some strict internal value system. This is the &#8220;yes set.&#8221; Once a rapport is developed based on the &#8220;yes set,&#8221; the target belief can be inserted.<\/p>\n<p>Fox news is pro-Christianity and aligns itself with the anti-abortion, anti-gay rights, anti-immigrant mentality to get access to 100% believability rating by the vulnerable population. Fox news then adds in the target messages, &#8220;tax breaks for the rich are good&#8221;, &#8220;corporate power is good&#8221;, &#8220;Democrats are bad,&#8221; etc. Fox news is all about this combination of messages of the serving the authoritarian rich together with the deep-seated religious\/reproductive\/racist values (the yes set). This is a mental control tactic well known to hypnotists. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=milton+erickson+yes+set\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=milton+erickson+yes+set<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Raw Story has the article Noam Chomsky helps explain the \u2018Fox Effect\u2019 in upcoming film \u2018Brainwashing of my Dad\u2019. Writer and documentarian Jen Senko has released a trailer for the film \u201cThe Brainwashing of my Dad,\u201d in which she explores her father\u2019s political conversion from lifelong Democrat into angry, ultra-conservative talk radio listener. &nbsp; [&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-16928","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\/16928","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=16928"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16932,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16928\/revisions\/16932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}