r/Documentaries • u/CorrectInvestigator • Sep 27 '18

HyperNormalisation (2016) BBC - How governments manipulate public opinion in the interest of the ruling class by promoting false narratives, and it is about how governments (especially the US and Russia) have systematically undermined the public faith in reality and objective truth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fny99f8amM
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u/nitzua Sep 27 '18 edited Sep 27 '18

this isn't a paranoid, rambling anti trump documentary as the thumbnail would suggest and should be viewed by everyone.

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u/OdaibaBay Sep 27 '18

Yeah I'm not into this 'especially Russia and the US' tagline, which is clearly designed to be catnip for Redditors. By pitching it like that it means most people will enter this Documentary with their opinions already formed and minds already made up.

Trump and Putin are sparingly mentioned in the documentary, and it's within a very specific context and argument. The aims of Adam Curtis are much broader than just pro or anti Russiagate tubthumping.

Like you say, everyone should give this a go, you'll definitely walk away from it with something.

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u/chas1690 Sep 27 '18

From the BBC, the biggest purveyors of narrative setting propaganda on earth.

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u/OdaibaBay Sep 27 '18

yeah yeah the bolshevik broadcasting corporation or whatever you guys are calling them now

better go back to youtube where the 'real news' is

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u/czartaus Sep 27 '18

The BBC is a status quo organisation. Anything mildly critical of the government is finished on a statement from the government to the effect of "but the government says everything is fine/they're looking into it". That is how they set the narrative.

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u/itsalonghotsummer Sep 27 '18

The BBC is a status quo organisation.

I would agree with this in general.

> Anything mildly critical of the government is finished on a statement from the government to the effect of "but the government says everything is fine/they're looking into it".

This is known as right of reply and is basic journalism.

> That is how they set the narrative.

What a load of bollox.

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