Year 11 Case Study

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1. How did the United States sell it's products and culture globally during the 1950's?
During the 1950, the United States sell their products by flooding the global market and using the media.
2. The CIA was formed in 1952, what was one of it’s first projects?
The CIA first project was protecting the oil reserve in Iran.
3. Why was the UFC (United Fruit Co.) unhappy with President Arbens?
UFC was unhappy with President Arbens as he was taking some of the company land away to give to peasant.
4. How did the United States and the United Fruit Co. use commercial techniques to package ruthless politics as "good will" efforts?
They make it seem that the people of Guatemala was revolting against the Guatemala government. During that time, United
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7. Who do you think shapes the information that comes to us via radio, television, the Internet, and so on?
I think the government control what information that come to us by video, television, the social media, and so on.
What kind of power do they wield over the kind of knowledge that we can possess – and the kinds of political and other identities that we construct for ourselves?
The power the government have is that they can control what information to share or not to share. Some of the knowledge that they give us can be false or partially true that might destroy or hinder relationship with other.
8. In his book PR: A Social History of Spin, Stewart Ewen writes that person the UFC hired to tell their story "saw the public as a malleable mass of protoplasm, plastic raw material that – in the hands of a skilled manipulator – could be manufactured at will. According to him, the public mind posed little danger and could be engineered through dexterous appeals to its instinctual and unconscious inner life.
Do you feel the statement about the public mind is more or less true today and