I don't think you will have to worry too much. As the subheading of the article so aptly puts it (my helpful comment in brackets): "Propaganda [or any Manchurian conspiracy to place right-wing crackpots in positions of influence in the dominant media] works best when it is not perceived as propaganda, but works more subtly." Many times Gladwell must write the exact opposite of what he believes just to retain his position of influence in the dominant media. Evidently, the conspirators at the National Journalism Center (the "corporate-funded program created to counter the media's alleged 'anti-business bias' by molding college kids into corporate-friendly journalist-operatives and helping them infiltrate top-tier news media organizations") took a different route with Gladwell than they did with other graduates/automatons such as Dinesh D'Souza, Michelle Malkin, Ann Coulter, John Fund and others who were way too obvious in their ideology to make good propagandists.
I'm not sure if it's worse to be a hypocritical ideologue who often expresses contrary opinions to hide their ideology or a shill who doesn't really believe anything but just does it for the big paycheck but I don't think you can be both at the same time. This conspiracy evidently goes all the way to the top (of the Association for Psychological Science). It looks like APS is going to have to find another popularizer of psychology to feature at its annual conference. Rick Dr. Rick Froman, Chair Division of Humanities and Social Sciences Professor of Psychology Box 3055 John Brown University 2000 W. University Siloam Springs, AR 72761 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> (479)524-7295 http://bit.ly/DrFroman From: Marc Carter [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, June 08, 2012 9:42 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: RE: [tips] Malcolm Gladwell's corporatist right-wing background Interesting, and depressing. I just ordered texts for an honors' student salon, and one of them is _Outliers_, which, as far as I can tell from reviews and the little bit I've read so far, has a message that apparently runs quite contrary to the typical right-wing explanation for success: disposition. I guess I'll know more as I read more, but I'm really sort of sorry, now. I hope none of the corporate-shill stuff comes through in this book.... m -- Marc Carter, PhD Associate Professor of Psychology Chair, Department of Behavioral and Health Sciences College of Arts & Sciences Baker University -- From: Christopher Green [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2012 3:57 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] Malcolm Gladwell's corporatist right-wing background I confess, I have never been as eager to despise Malcolm Gladwell as many other behavioral scientists were. Yes, he overblew and misinterpreted some results, but he seemed to occupy an important niche in the complex ecology by which difficult, nuanced scientific findings get translated to the wider public, which isn't much interested in the niceties of neologistic theories and null hypothesis testing. Turns out, I was wrong, but not for the reasons I expected. It appears, now, that Malcolm Gladwell is the product of well-known "public relations" machine that has defended corporatist agendas and far right politics for nearly three decades now. The only difference is, he has been better at keeping his paymasters in the shadows than some of his fellow propagandists. The source is clearly leftist, but the basic facts are clear enough whether you are in sympathy with the writer's politics or not. http://www.alternet.org/story/155770/is_malcolm_gladwell_america%27s_most_successful_propagandist_and_corporate_shill?page=entire Chris --- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ ========================== --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13029.76c7c563b32ad9d8d09c72a2d17c90e1&n=T&l=tips&o=18237 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-18237-13029.76c7c563b32ad9d8d09c72a2d17c9...@fsulist.frostburg.edu<mailto:leave-18237-13029.76c7c563b32ad9d8d09c72a2d17c9...@fsulist.frostburg.edu> ________________________________ The information contained in this e-mail and any attachments thereto ("e-mail") is sent by Baker University ("BU") and is intended to be confidential and for the use of only the individual or entity named above. The information may be protected by federal and state privacy and disclosures acts or other legal rules. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that retention, dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error please immediately notify Baker University by email reply and immediately and permanently delete this e-mail message and any attachments thereto. Thank you. --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13039.37a56d458b5e856d05bcfb3322db5f8a&n=T&l=tips&o=18258 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-18258-13039.37a56d458b5e856d05bcfb3322db5...@fsulist.frostburg.edu<mailto:leave-18258-13039.37a56d458b5e856d05bcfb3322db5...@fsulist.frostburg.edu> --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=18264 or send a blank email to leave-18264-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
