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Adam Curtis on media manipulation

March 30, 2013 By Useful Ideas Project Leave a Comment

The film interviews a whole host of extraordinary bit players from the Texas world and builds up a very powerful mood of uncertainty and suspicion. Underlying this is a message that says these hidden forces in America will never allow you to know the truth. Which means that what you are told by the media may be a lie. That you are being manipulated.

via BBC – Blogs – Adam Curtis – YOU THINK YOU ARE A CONSUMER BUT MAYBE YOU HAVE BEEN CONSUMED.

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