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Originally Posted by jumpy

Certainly I think that these days most of us would not be swayed by such naive and obvious attempts, but back in those days the 'media' as we know it was in its infancy and though I consider myself a little bit smarter than your average plonker, I have to wonder how much more sophisticated and subtle these same techiques are today by comparison?

Now, where did I leave my tinfoil hat?

...if you actually believe you are more sophisticated than folks back then- then you have allready swallowed the current propoganda message without question...refer to the "emperor's new clothes" fairy story for all the back ground information you will ever need on propoganda..