Archive for the ‘Spin’ Category

The Natural Power and Beauty of Your Influence

Posted by Brett Greene | Filed under Beliefs, Psychology, Social Media, Spin, Videos | Dec 26, 2008 | Tags: attitude, give, happy, holiday, holidays, Influence, joy, self help, twitter | No Comments

Influence is all around us and most of us are blind to it. Hence, the title of this blog. In reflecting on this I was amazed to see how far reaching influence is in our lives. With the boom in social media this is becoming more and more obvious as people who were “nobodies” yesterday ...Read more.

How the Mainstream Media Actually Works

Posted by Brett Greene | Filed under Media, Politics, Spin, Videos | Dec 2, 2008 | Tags: current events, news | No Comments

This video of The Young Turks helps to point out how political pundits lie to the public while kissing up to the most powerful politicians until they begin to lose power. Then, like magic, the truth that everyone knew all along comes out of their mouths for the first time …years after it could have ...Read more.

How to See Through Political Lies Perpetrated to Persuade You

Posted by Brett Greene | Filed under Politics, Spin | Nov 13, 2008 | Tags: current events, George Bush, George W Bush, Lee Attwater, newspeak, orwellian, political operative, public relations | No Comments

Frontline recently had a show exploring the life of Lee Attwater, who was the mentor to Karl Rove in how to win at all costs in the arena of politics. It was a fascinating show revealing how dirty politics get in the pursuit of power. Politicians and political operatives know that perception is reality. He ...Read more.

George Carlin Explains How America is Really Run

Posted by Brett Greene | Filed under Media, Politics, Spin, Videos | Oct 20, 2008 | Tags: Beliefs, current events, education, elite, George Carlin, information, lobbyists, news, owners, ownership society, president, presidential election, wall street | No Comments

The topics of the day covered by the mainstream media are usually about 5 steps behind what’s really going on. For instance, focusing on who will be the president or will be your next Senator distracts you from the fact that these “representatives” represent heavily monied interests, not you for the most part. Simply review ...Read more.

If it Bleeds it Leads – Why do People Love Bad News?

Posted by Brett Greene | Filed under Advertising, Books, Consumerism, Media, Psychology, Spin | Oct 17, 2008 | Tags: 9/11, crime, crime decline, current events, economic crisis, economy, fear, fear in marketing, fear mongering, financial crisis, financial news, global economy, Media, news, power of fear, scare tactics, self help, self help gurus, television news, terror, terrorism, terrorisy, wall street | No Comments

Have you watched your local nightly news lately? Probably not if you’re like most Americans under the age of 61, but you’ll still get my point. I’m guessing you’ve watched more financial news in the last month than usual in reaction to fear around money, stocks and the economy in general. I accidentally saw the ...Read more.

Our “Unpredictable” Economic Crisis Was Predicted 12 Years Ago

Posted by Brett Greene | Filed under Books, Money, Politics, Spin, Videos | Oct 8, 2008 | Tags: bailout, bank crisis, banking, current events, economic crisis, financial crisis, fooled by randomness, greed, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, news, the black swan, wall street | 1 Comment

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the #1 NYT Best Selling author of Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets and The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, predicted the current banking crisis 12 years ago. As a trader for 18 years, and an intelligent critical thinker his entire ...Read more.

A Good Night for a Presidential Debate is a Good Day to Launch a Blog on Marketing Spin

Posted by Brett Greene | Filed under Marketing, Media, Politics, Psychology, Spin, The Brain | Oct 7, 2008 | Tags: Advertising, america, barck obama, campaigns, democrat lies, Influence, Marketing, mccain lies, Media, neurolinguistic programming, nlp, obama lies, persuasion, political lies, Politics, president, presidential debate, presidential election, republican lies, Spin, The Brain, wall street, wall street lies | No Comments

Tonight is the night of the second presidential debate. This seems like as good a day as any to launch a blog on how you are marketed to by advertisers, politicians, experts, media, and sometimes even your friends. If you think you might hear at least one lie, fabrication or stretching of the truth by ...Read more.