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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
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Agencies of mass suggestion
Hi,
I'm translating few sections from a book about sociology and I found it very difficult. In most cases I'm bale to understand the sentence using dictionary, but there are some phrases that I can't understand even when I know meaning of each word.
Maybe you can help me with some of them?
"Consequently he finds it difficult to determine what is to his own "best interests" and to decide between the issues and leaders presented to him by the agencies of mass suggestion"
I'm trying to translate that but it doesn't make too much sense.
I'm translating few sections from a book about sociology and I found it very difficult. In most cases I'm bale to understand the sentence using dictionary, but there are some phrases that I can't understand even when I know meaning of each word.
Maybe you can help me with some of them?
"Consequently he finds it difficult to determine what is to his own "best interests" and to decide between the issues and leaders presented to him by the agencies of mass suggestion"
I'm trying to translate that but it doesn't make too much sense.
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Sounds like a derogatory term for the media. He has to decide what is important for him among the various issues (problems in society) and leaders (politicians to be elected), but he is limited in his knowledge based on what the media (TV news, newspapers) decides is important for him to know.
- Sounds like a derogatory term for the media.
- He has to decide what is important for him among the various issues (problems in society) and leaders (politicians to be elected), but he is limited in his knowledge based on what the media (TV news, newspapers) decides is important for him to know.
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Sounds like a derogatory term for the media.
He has to decide what is important for him among the various issues (problems in society) and leaders (politicians to be elected), but he is limited in his knowledge based on what the media (TV news, newspapers) decides is important for him to know.
He has to decide what is important for him among the various issues (problems in society) and leaders (politicians to be elected), but he is limited in his knowledge based on what the media (TV news, newspapers) decides is important for him to know.
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Anonymous
agencies of mass suggestion"
I think the real problem in this passage is the above phrase. What exactly is " agencies of mass suggestion"? To my ears, it sounds like Gobbledygook.
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I agree with Vorpar: it is clearly a term for the mass media, used by someone who thinks they have an untoward influence on the citizenry.
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