TIME's covers -- pure propaganda

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TIME's covers -- pure propaganda

Postby Nordic » Wed Dec 14, 2011 4:49 pm

This started as a comment in the Occupy NY thread, but I realized it needs its own thread, so I don't accidentally derail that one.

Let's face it, for TIME magazine to declare "person of the year" to be "the protestor" seems like a good thing. But wait. We should take a closer look at the photo, and look at TIME's past covers.


TIME magazine is pure propaganda.

Interesting to analyze that photo ......

She strikes me as obviously Arab, and of course female. Why female?

And there's something about the eyebrows coming together .....

Notice the eyes!

Stars and crescents, turned on their side.

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It's even red. I desaturated the area around it, but left the eye color alone. It's red.

And there's something about that forehead shape that's ominous. Can't put my finger on it.

But down on the neck and chest, there is some really weird imagery. I mean, what is this, if not a vagina?

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And this whole area around the neck and upper chest looks like it's suggestive of something else (besides a bunch of vaginas), maybe a smirking Satanic face of some kind:

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TIME is really good at visual propaganda, believe me.

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Then of course there's this:

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and this:

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and this:

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And, most famously (to me anyway) this:

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And another:

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These images can be found here:

http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/20 ... -newsweek/
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Re: TIME's covers -- pure propaganda

Postby seemslikeadream » Wed Dec 14, 2011 4:54 pm

the very word is offensive
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Re: TIME's covers -- pure propaganda

Postby Nordic » Wed Dec 14, 2011 5:07 pm

seemslikeadream wrote:the very word is offensive


What word? "Protester?"

:shrug:
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Re: TIME's covers -- pure propaganda

Postby seemslikeadream » Wed Dec 14, 2011 5:11 pm

Nordic wrote:
seemslikeadream wrote:the very word is offensive


What word? "Protester?"

:shrug:



oh no sorry :oops:

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Re: TIME's covers -- pure propaganda

Postby barracuda » Wed Dec 14, 2011 5:44 pm

The source for Shepard Fairey's illustration is a photograph from Occupy L.A. by LA Weekly photographer Ted Soqui.

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Re: TIME's covers -- pure propaganda

Postby Jeff » Wed Dec 14, 2011 6:32 pm

Actually, I do find "protester" offensive here. Might as well be Year of the Complainer.
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Re: TIME's covers -- pure propaganda

Postby Nordic » Wed Dec 14, 2011 7:07 pm

Thanks 'cuda, that's good to know.
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Re: TIME's covers -- pure propaganda

Postby Plutonia » Wed Dec 14, 2011 7:10 pm

Messaging opportunity?

This bit of spin today:

TIME Magazine names The Protester as its Person of the Year for 2011
Posted by David Wendt ⋅ December 14, 2011 ⋅
Filed Under The Protester

TIME Magazine’s Person of the Year for 2011 is The Protester, that problematic individual who has brought down governments across North Africa and set up protest camps in the heart of America’s cities, but who has also rioted in the streets of London and hacked the website’s of some of the world’s biggest corporations.

TIME’s definition of the protester is very safe and conservative. So there’s much talk of the protests of people in Tunisia and Libya, for example, but less talk about protesters who have represented a more dangerous trend in 2011. The likes of Anders Behring Breivik and Julian Assange could be seen as protesters too, in their own ways. Are they included in TIME’s celebration of the protester.

The term ‘protester’ has arguably been sullied in 2011 as governments seek to force protest groups to conform to rules about how they can stage their demonstrations. The idea of a ‘permit to protest’ might seem like ludicrous Orwellian double-speak, yet protest groups in many parts of the world have been allowed to operate only when they can be conveniently shunted into certain areas.

By naming The Protester as its Person of the Year for 2011, TIME comes dangerously close to legitimising disruptive forces within our society. But the magazine does not quite go through with such a move. For many, The Protestor is still the kind of person who toppled Muammar Gaddafi or who camps out in Zuccotti Park. The rest – the people who rioted in London and Birmingham, for example – are just hooligans looking for free stuff. Aren’t they?

https://100gf[DOT]wordpress.com/2011/12/14/time-magazine-names-the-protester-as-its-person-of-the-year-for-2011/


Ergh! Though the tone seems sympathetic the overall message is "Protestors are dangerous."

It'll be interesting to see if this becomes a "popular" take.
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Re: TIME's covers -- pure propaganda

Postby seemslikeadream » Wed Dec 14, 2011 7:31 pm

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Re: TIME's covers -- pure propaganda

Postby seemslikeadream » Wed Dec 14, 2011 7:40 pm

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Re: TIME's covers -- pure propaganda

Postby Nordic » Wed Dec 14, 2011 7:49 pm

Meant to put this in the OP, they got busted for this one:

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TIME made the black man BLACKER.
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Re: TIME's covers -- pure propaganda

Postby Nordic » Wed Dec 14, 2011 7:50 pm

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Upper left, apparently the words "Ivory Tower".

Yes, protesters are the "ivory tower" intellectuals, the college kids, the elites.
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Re: TIME's covers -- pure propaganda

Postby seemslikeadream » Wed Dec 14, 2011 8:48 pm

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Re: TIME's covers -- pure propaganda

Postby DrVolin » Wed Dec 14, 2011 9:09 pm

I was quite shocked when I saw the cover on the news this morning. Now that I see the source photograph, I am even more shocked.
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Re: TIME's covers -- pure propaganda

Postby Nordic » Wed Dec 14, 2011 9:13 pm

Yeah funny how the woman looks clearly arabic now.
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