“2020: A PROPAGANDA MASTERPIECE”
From Mark Crispin Miller, Professor of Media Studies at New York University
Perspectives on the Pandemic, Episode 17, Part One, 10 Jun 2021
Interviewed by John Kirby
Editing by Francis Karogodins
Research by Evan Dominguez, Billy Clayton Miller
Mark Cripsin Miller: “It seems to me that the year 2020 and then the first half of 2021 have comprised a global propaganda spectacle of unprecedented scale and sophistication. I for one believe that we were subjected to a series of carefully planned psychological operations over the course of 2020 and just beyond. I think it started with the roll-out of the virus. This particular instance of fear-mongering is the most persuasive, the most compelling, the most devastating kind of fear-mongering that’s ever really been used in the history of propaganda and that’s really saying something. We’ve seen the fear propaganda move from the Hun to Communism to Terrorism but now it makes the crucial move to the thing itself. The thing with which previous enemies have been compared. The evocation of The Virus Is All Around Us was enough to turn the wits of millions of highly educated people. It’s a very easy matter to get people to do what you want. Just convince them they’re under attack and that anyone who argues with that claim is putting them at risk.”
“Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government,” wrote Edward Bernays, the father of modern propaganda. In part one of Episode 17, Mark Crispin Miller, professor of Media Studies at New York University, discusses the propaganda onslaught that defined the year 2020, when what was dismissed one week is confirmed the next, and why questioning official narratives “necessarily means taking ‘conspiracy theory’ seriously.”
Perspectives on the Pandemic are a production of
The Press and th Public Project
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See all 17 Episodes listing at:
https://ratical.org/PandemicParallaxView/index.html#PonP
Episode 17: 2020: A Propaganda Masterpiece - Prof. Mark Crispin Miller
Episode 16: An Urgent Warning To The World - Dr. Mike Yeadon, former Vice President and Chief Science Officer at Pfizer
Episode 15: A Conversation with Prof. Sucharit Bhakdi, M.D. - Blood Clots and Beyond
Episode 14: Catching Up With Knut Wittkowski, PhD
Episode 13: A Conversation with Leemon McHenry, PhD - The Illusion of Evidence-Based Medicine
Episode 12: A Conversation with Dr. Judy Mikovits and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Pt 3 of 3)
Episode 11: A Conversation with Dr. Judy Mikovits and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Pt 2 of 3)
Episode 10: A Conversation with Dr. Judy Mikovits and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Pt 1 of 3)
Episode 9: The (Undercover) Epicenter Nurse
Episode 8: The Monopoly Edition with author Matt Stoller
Episode 7: A Conversation with Investigative Journalist Sam Husseini
Episode 6: A Conversation with Dr. Dan Erickson & Dr. Artin Massihi
Episode 5: A Conversation with Dr. Knut Wittkowski, PhD
Episode 4: Update with Dr. John Ioannidis
Episode 3: A Conversation with Dr. David L Katz concerning “Total Harm Minimization”
Episode 2: A Conversation with Knut Wittkowski, PhD
Episode 1: A Conversation with Dr. John Ioannidis, Stanford University
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Miller is the editor of Forbidden Bookshelf, an e-book series that revives important works now out of print, most of which were variously killed at birth. Earlier he was the editor of two book series: Discovering America, published by the University of Texas Press, and, prior to that, Icons of America, published by Yale University Press.
In 2004, Miller wrote Patriot Act, a show that he performed for six weeks at the New York Theater Workshop. He is currently co-producing Four Died Trying, a documentary series on the assassinations of JFK, Malcolm X, Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr.
A recipient of fellowships from the Rockefeller, Ingram Merrill and Guggenheim Foundations, Miller is on the board of the Organisation for Propaganda Studies, an international consortium of scholars, and the Alliance for Human Research Protection, whose goal is to prevent, or correct, violations of informed consent in medical research.
Miller earned his bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University in 1971, and his doctorate in English from Johns Hopkins University in 1977. Although he specialized in Renaissance literature, Miller is best known as a media critic. Before joining New York University, Miller served as director of film studies at Johns Hopkins University.
