I did a yahoo search for "Trust Us, We're Experts!" and found mainly sites selling the book, and book reviews. The book reviews said pretty much what was expected...great book...Displaying great truths....IM really just propaganda myself.... The reviews were all done by people praising the book, so of course they were just used as positive propaganda for Rampton and Stauber.
The book brought up some valid points, many that we had already been addressed in our readings such as humanity is inadequate to make their own decisions and must be swayed by propaganda. The aspect I found the most interesting was the third party propaganda, in particular Mothers Opposing Pollution. If you remember correctly, "this was a campaign said to be set up by mothers who were against plastic containers for pollution reasons." When realistically it was a group working for association of Liquadpaperboard Carton manufacture. I mean come on, how much lower can you go. For some reason that particular issue really sickened me...
The book was ironic because in a sense it was doing exactly what it was telling its readers to be aware of: presenting propaganda is such a discrete fashion that we are not aware of it. Sneaky...Very sneaky.. Essentially though, there is no away around it. In a society where you want a product to sell you must present propaganda or you will be unsuccessful. It just makes me feel less like an individual and more like a robot when it's laid out in front of me. I've been critically assessing everything as propaganda since ive started this course... and sadly sometimes i think it would be better to be naive about the whole process. But I guess that why it continues because most people are naive about it, or at least claim to be.
side note: Was Dr.Rapaille the same guy from the persuaders?
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