Friday, October 19, 2007

A Picture $ells a Thousand Words: Propaganda/Ipso Factoid

Would you like to know how to predict which candidates the two major political parties will nominate to be President of the United States of America? Consider this:

How are the images of individual candidates presented in the popular media?

Remember flipping through the mainstream glossies back in 1991, and seeing pictures of Jerry Brown's contorted goofy face on one page, while Bill Clinton was pictured standing messianically with a glowing face and upraised hands, on the opposite page? Who won that primary election? There were hundreds, maybe thousands of photos of both Clinton and Brown for the Timely News-weeklys to chose from, yet they chose to portray Brown in an unfavorable way and subtly promoted the chosen one.

A picture $e
lls a thousand words.

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