"This original land included parts of Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan. They must get this land someway, or the Bible is false. This will happen."
The Bible is the Word of God. It does not depend on your false theories and ideas for its truthfulness. Your ideas and visions are shaped by the news media and consequently by the antichrist. Your conceptions about modern Zionist Israel and modern pseudo-Judaism were shaped by Hollywood and the news media, and not by the Word of God.
THE NEWS MEDIA IN AMERICA
There is no greater power in the world today than that wielded by the manipulators of
public opinion in America. No king or pope of old, no conquering general or high priest
ever disposed of a power even remotely approaching that of the few dozen men who
control America's
mass news and entertainment media. Their power is not distant and impersonal; it
reaches into every home in America, as it works its
will during nearly every waking hour. It is the power which shapes and molds the mind
of virtually every citizen, young or old, rich or poor, simple or sophisticated. The mass
media forms for us our image of the world and then tell us what to think about that
image Essentially everything we know -- or think we know -- about events outside our
own neighborhood or circle of acquaintances comes to us via our daily newspaper, our
weekly news magazine, our radio, or our television. It is not just the heavy-handed
suppression of certain news stories from our newspapers or the blatant propagandizing
of history-distorting TV "docudramas" which characterizes the opinion-manipulating
techniques of the media masters. They exercise both subtlety and thoroughness in their
management of both the news and the entertainment which they present to us. For
example, the way in which the news is covered: which items are emphasized and which
are played down, the reporter's choice of words, tone of voice, and facial expressions;
the wording of headlines; the choice of illustrations -- all of these things subliminally and
yet profoundly affect the way in which we interpret what we see or hear. On top of this,
of course, the columnists and editors remove any remaining doubt from our mind as to
just what we are to think about it all. Employing carefully developed psychological
techniques, they guide our thought and opinion so that we can be in tune with the "in"
crowd, the
"beautiful people," the "smart money." They let us know exactly what our attitudes
should be toward various types of people and behavior by placing those people or that
behavior in the context of a TV drama or situation comedy and having the other TV
character react to them in the Politically Correct way.
Molding American Minds
The average American, of whose daily life TV-watching takes such an unhealthy portion
distinguishes between these fictional situations and reality only with difficulty, if at all. He
responds to the televised actions, statements, and attitudes of TV actors much as he
does to his own peers in real life. For all too many Americans the real world has been
replaced by the false reality of the TV environment, and it is to this false reality that his
urge to conform responds. Thus, when a TV scriptwriter expresses approval of some
ideas and actions through the TV characters for whom he is writing, and disapproval of
others, he exerts a powerful pressure on millions of viewers toward conformity with his
own views. And as it is with TV entertainment, so it is also with the news, whether
televised or printed. The insidious thing about this form of thought control is that even
when we realize that
entertainment or news is biased, the media masters still are able to manipulate most of
us. This is because they not only slant what they present, but they establish tacit
boundaries and ground rules for the
permissible spectrum of opinion.
As an example, consider the media treatment of Middle East news. Some editor or
commentators are slavishly pro-Israel in their every utterance, while others seem nearly
neutral. No one, however, dares suggest that the U.S. government and the Christian
people are backing the wrong side in the Arab-Jewish conflict and that it served Jewish
interests rather than Christian and American interests to send U.S. forces to cripple
Iraq, Israel's principal rival in the Middle East. Thus, a spectrum of permissible opinion,
from pro-Israel to nearly neutral, is established. Because there are differences in degree,
however, most Christians fail to realize that they are being manipulated. Even the citizen
who complains about "managed news" falls into the trap of thinking that because he is
presented with an apparent spectrum of opinion he can escape the thought controllers'
influence by believing the editor or commentator of his choice. It's a "heads I win, tails
you lose" situation. Every point on the permissible spectrum of public opinion is
acceptable to the media masters -- and no impermissible fact or viewpoint is allowed
any exposure at all, if they can prevent it. The control of the opinion-molding media is
monolithic. Almost all of the controlled media television, radio, newspapers, magazines,
books, motion pictures -- speak with a single voice and that voice is always
antichristian. Despite the appearance of variety, there is no real dissent, no alternative
source of facts or ideas accessible to the great mass of people which might allow them
to form opinions at odds with those of the media masters. They are presented with a
single view of the world -- a persistent antichristian view of the world, the danger of
permitting citizens to keep and bear arms, the moral equivalence of all sexual
orientations, and the desirability of a religiously "pluralistic" and antichristian
cosmopolitan society. It is a view of the world designed by the media masters to suit
their own antichrist and pro-Zionist ends -- and the pressure to conform to that view is
overwhelming. People adapt their opinions to it, vote in accord with it, and shape their
lives to fit it. |
