Propaganda and the Media: How They Work (Dilnawaz Siddiqui) (video)

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Publisher: MeccaCentric Da'wah Group
Voice: Various
Media: VHS Video (NTSC format)
Total running time: unknown

Product description:

Dr. Dilnawaz Siddiqui, professor of communication at Clarion University in Pennsylvania, looks into a field where Muslims, in general, are greatly lacking in knowledge and ability. He looks at the power of the media and the harsh realities of the manipulative techniques and tactics that are often used to serve particular agendas or interests. He raises an awareness of these techniques through a detailed analysis of them, supplimented with real-life examples from media coverage in the past. Media being a tool of communication that is at anyone's disposal, the main objective of this talk is to empower the Muslim with the knowledge and understanding of this field in order to recognize ways in which Muslims are being targeted, but also to encourage making changes by seeking to enter this field with the intention of using media for the noble cause of truth and justice.

"It's unfortunate that in the field of communication, reason is not appealed to at all. It is the emotion or fear that is appealed to."

"You have to make a distinction between context on one hand and content on the other... A sports program, which provides a kind of context- the content is not the sports program... The ads are the content.