This program looks into the question of just how far media manipulation can go in an agenda of conditioning our minds to the desired perceptions.   Carolyn thinks psyops, originally military-style Psychological Operations, have become increasingly used domestically (with the help of the public’s dependence on television), while her guest Hadding Scott dismisses such an idea as impossible to keep from being revealed. However, they are revealed but most people refuse to accept that such “Big Lies” could or would be carried out.

The discussion centers around the Sandy Hook “massacre” in Newtown, Conn. Among the ideas offered:

• Information “warfare” has always been accepted as a legitimate way to reach political objectives; movies and television are the primary vehicles now;
• News media like CNN can show us a “fictive” world that is based in truth, but not the whole, relevant or contextual truth;
• Already in 1995, there existed the capability of combining live actors with computer-generated video graphics to create a “virtual” scene;
• Psychological warfare, a component of information operations,  is intended mainly to demoralize the opposition so that they won’t fight;
• Gun control legislation appears to be the primary political objective (also called national objective) of the Sandy Hook televised event;
• And much more.

Image: Anderson Cooper, a former CIA trainee, is engaged in information warfare as a news presenter at CNN.