🧩 BND Motif Index · M754
Manufacturing consent
The press is said to serve power, the state or the owners, deciding what the public notices and forgets, so that it informs no one and manages everyone.
🕵️ Theories🗂️ Information integrity
- 16claims filed under it
- 2left shows it came up on
- 2center shows it came up on
- 2right shows it came up on
- 6claims retold online
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
⤵️ under it: 🧩 Citizen Kane 🧩 Selling the war
🔗 goes with: 🧩 Algorithmic bias distorts discourse 🧩 Lapdog press 🧩 Lying media
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
⚖️ center 2
🐘 right 2
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
📰 In the news
the stories its claims were told about, the most told first (matched by our tools, so a link can be wrong)
- 📰 Elon Musk settles lawsuits over 2024 election giveaways 2026-10-16 to 2026-10-18
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-24 “Mainstream media reporters intentionally hide information about political corruption and bribery.”
🎙️ The Young Turks (podcast) - 2026-10-23 “There is a massive disconnect between actual news and what is currently being presented as news.”
🎙️ Ruthless - 2026-10-22 “Billionaires and capital owners control the major organs of propaganda and public communication.”
🎙️ HasanAbi (podcast) 🎙️ The Young Turks (podcast) - 2026-10-21 “Zionist billionaires own America's politicians and most of its media.”
🎙️ The Young Turks (podcast) - 2026-10-20 “Elon Musk uses his control over X to boost his own preferred narratives.”
🎙️ Breaking Points - 2026-10-19 “People should abandon billionaire-owned social media platforms for decentralized, open-source alternatives to avoid censorship and fascism.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-19 “Elon Musk and his associates are using their control over X and TikTok to suppress the Alex Gibney documentary 'Musk.'” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-19 “Mainstream media is owned by billionaire Trump supporters and oligarchs.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-18 “Billionaires and democracy are mutually exclusive because the wealthy use their influence to rig elections and control the media.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-18 “The BBC provides biased, shallow, or state-sponsored journalism that fails to report the truth on topics like Zionism and racism.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-16 “Tech companies are exercising authoritarianism by controlling versions of reality.”
🎙️ The Brian Lehrer Show (WNYC) - 2026-10-13 “American media outlets act as a propaganda operation to protect Israel and hide its crimes.”
🎙️ The Young Turks (podcast) - 2026-10-12 “The BBC has been captured by the far right and the Conservative establishment and now works as their propaganda platform.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-06 “The media works in conjunction with the state to manipulate public attention and control narratives.”
🎙️ Candace (podcast) - 2026-10-06 “The American media deceives the public to protect Israeli interests.”
🎙️ The Young Turks (podcast) - 2026-10-05 “The media exists to manufacture consent for the oligarchy rather than to inform the public.”
🎙️ The Jimmy Dore Show (podcast)
M754 · first seen 2026-10-10 · last 2026-10-27 · what this is · how the index works