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|image_description=[[Noam Chomsky]], a publicly acclaimed critic of [[US foreign policy]], he has very little to say on the subject of [[deep politics|''deep'' politics]], what is really going on behind the scenes of the public facade of [[party politics]]. This makes him a gatekeeper on most of the topics raised at this website. | |image_description=[[Noam Chomsky]], a publicly acclaimed critic of [[US foreign policy]], he has very little to say on the subject of [[deep politics|''deep'' politics]], what is really going on behind the scenes of the public facade of [[party politics]]. This makes him a gatekeeper on most of the topics raised at this website. | ||
|wikipedia=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gatekeeping_(communication) | |wikipedia=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gatekeeping_(communication) | ||
| − | |description=A [[controlled opposition]] figure who works to corral opinion | + | |description=A [[controlled opposition]] figure who works to corral opinion and limit the spectrum of debate |
| − | |constitutes=controlled opposition | + | |constitutes=propagandist, controlled opposition |
| − | }}A '''gatekeeper''' is someone who corrals opinion | + | }}A '''gatekeeper''' is someone who corrals opinion. |
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| + | In the ''[[Manufacturing of Consent]]'', [[Noam Chomsky]] & [[Edward Herman]] highlight how energetic debate about a rightly controlled range of opinions is a strategy used by the {{ccm}} to delude the audience into the conviction that they have independently arrived at their point of view, when in fact it has been given to them. Chomsky himself emerged as a prominent gatekeeper after his refusal to engage on [[third rail]] topics such as the [[JFK assassination]] or [[9/11]]. | ||
== Overton Window == | == Overton Window == | ||
| − | {FA| Overton Window}} | + | {{FA| Overton Window}} |
Gatekeeping works by narrowing the spectrum of opinion, by excluding certain ideas from the [[Overton Window]]. | Gatekeeping works by narrowing the spectrum of opinion, by excluding certain ideas from the [[Overton Window]]. | ||
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| + | == Limited hangouts == | ||
| + | {{FA|Limited hangout}} | ||
| + | A [[limited hangout]] is a controlled exposure of information, done with the intent of keeping more sensitive information hidden. Gatekeepers may focus entirely on the exposed information, with the intention of dissipating interest in what has not been revealed. They may attempt to undermine those who suggest that what was exposed was only a limited hangout (or a [[modified limited hangout]]). | ||
{{SMWDocs}} | {{SMWDocs}} | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
{{reflist}} | {{reflist}} | ||
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Latest revision as of 13:18, 27 June 2024
 Gatekeeper  (propagandist, controlled opposition)   | |
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| A controlled opposition figure who works to corral opinion and limit the spectrum of debate |
A gatekeeper is someone who corrals opinion.
In the Manufacturing of Consent, Noam Chomsky & Edward Herman highlight how energetic debate about a rightly controlled range of opinions is a strategy used by the commercially-controlled media to delude the audience into the conviction that they have independently arrived at their point of view, when in fact it has been given to them. Chomsky himself emerged as a prominent gatekeeper after his refusal to engage on third rail topics such as the JFK assassination or 9/11.
Overton Window
- Full article: Overton Window
- Full article: Overton Window
Gatekeeping works by narrowing the spectrum of opinion, by excluding certain ideas from the Overton Window.
Limited hangouts
- Full article: Limited hangout
- Full article: Limited hangout
A limited hangout is a controlled exposure of information, done with the intent of keeping more sensitive information hidden. Gatekeepers may focus entirely on the exposed information, with the intention of dissipating interest in what has not been revealed. They may attempt to undermine those who suggest that what was exposed was only a limited hangout (or a modified limited hangout).
Examples
| Page name | Description |
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| Noam Chomsky | Publicly acclaimed critic of US foreign policy with an encyclopedic knowledge of history, Chomsky has become a gatekeeper by his refusal to contemplate false flag attacks. By 2021 turned proponent of starving dissidents to death in concentration camps. |
| Counterpunch | A US biweekly political magazine that since 2018 has moved sharply to the official narrative. |
| Democracy Now! | "Alternative" media with nothing much to say about deep politics. |
| Jonathan Freedland | UK journalist who wrote that Politics may be broken. But it’s only politics that can save us |
| Amy Goodman | Presenter of Democracy Now! |
| Infowars | A website operated by Alex Jones. Loved by its fans, disliked by many in powerful positions. Heavily censored by Big Tech. |
| Paul Mason | Spooky English writer and broadcaster who, with Carole Cadwalladr, was "unmasked as lap dogs for the security state.<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a> |
| New Statesman | |
| The Intercept | Website funded by billionaire and deep state operative Pierre Omidyar. Secured control over the documents from Edward Snowden, for then to publish a minuscule percentage of them and hide the rest forever. Has a tendency to reveal whistleblowers. |
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