J 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: The Arsenio Hall Show, Anthony Scaramucci, Jerry Garcia
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Try to make the public think they are participating. It is a show (lights, backdrop, animation, music = get swept up in it. Get lulled into thinking this is really really grandiose and the rhetoric) not the actual decision-making process. Part 2: when all else fails, distract people from the important stuff (create distraction) Rather than having a discussion about what the protest is. Kathleen jamieson : calls these political distractions calculated strategies of distraction. they don"t just implemented. The spin industry : the way these distractions are calculated. spinning the real versions. This is an out in the open . 1952 : adlai stevenson v. dwight eisenhower for president. 1960 : john kennedy v. richard nixon for president. 1964 : lyndon b. johnson v. barry goldwater for president. 1968 : richard nixon v. hubert humphrey for president. 1980 : ronald reagan v. jimmy carter for president. again) Reagan was a genius at this (let"s make america great.
