A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes (Mark Twain)

The beauty of propaganda - II

My Russian friends told me that, in Soviet times, they didn't believe their newspapers but they had no other sources of information. In our times, we  believe our newspapers even though we have plenty of other sources of information (see "the arctic ice disaster" and "the beauty of propaganda")

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Comment from http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2415191/Global-cooling-Arctic-ice-caps-grows-60-global-warming-predictions.html#ixzz2ea6WvsNo 

"The Pause?". . .Man that's a good one! Why would one in the scientific community go to the world with that kind of excuse? Oh I know, Like the time your grade school teacher asked you for your homework and your response was that your dog ate it. "Global Warming!" . . . shouted from the hilltops and billions wasted on a hypothesis that is traveling the digestive track of poor "Fido" only to later realize the truth of the matter finding itself in the proverbial front yard as a big pile of steaming poo! Now is the time for you to blame the dog again by trying to rub his nose in it. Looks like the evidence is stacked up against you by 60% ! HAHAHA Don't worry, one day your grand children will be able to look back on this and laugh at you !

- TheBigBangisallnoise, Longview, United States, 10/9/2013 23:18

The beauty of propaganda

First of all, note that the "Mail" sells almost two million copies per day. Consider also that other newspapers reported the same news. Then note the more than 156.000 Web shares and the over one thousand comments.

So, several million people have been exposed to the idea that "global cooling is coming" and to the parallel one that "the Arctic is recovering"

Now, consider how many people may have had the time and the willingness to go see the real data; for instance here, or here, showing that the Arctic is NOT recovering. Maybe a few thousand people? A few tens of thousands? Hardly more than that. So, you can imagine which message the public is getting.

You see the beauty of propaganda? Volume always triumphs over truth.