I need a little help with this question
Wag The Dog argues that the public is easily manipulated to adopt beliefs. How does the movie persuade the audience of this?
any ideas will be appreciate...Thankyou
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This should answer your question
BREAN
"They Got To Know?" Stan...? Get with it. Who Killed
Kennedy...? I read the first draft of the Warren
Report, said he was killed by a Drunk Driver. You
watched the Gulf War. What did you see? Day after
day, the one "Smart Bomb" falling into a building.
The truth, I was in the building when they shot that
shot, they shot it in a studio, Falls Church Virginia,
1/10th scale model of a building.
MOSS
Is that true?
BREAN
How the *beep* do we know. You take my point?
The idea being that we only know what we are told. The media is by it's very nature subjective so what we take on a daily basis as fact is merely opinion. It is therefore not unreasonable to believe that some of this opinions ends up being replaced by fiction. In other words, in the modern world, if they've seen it on TV 95% of the public will view a story as cast iron fact.
Ultimately it comes down to the same argument as universal truth:
In order to ammass knowledge you must first realise that you will never know anything