Gatekeeper

Gatekeeper  (controlled opposition)
A controlled opposition figure who works to corral opinion

A gatekeeper is someone who corrals opinion.

In the Manufacturing of Consent, Noam Chomsky & Edward Herman highlight how energetic debate about a rightly controlled range of opinions is a strategy used by the commercially-controlled media to delude the audience into the conviction that they have independently arrived at their point of view, when in fact it has been given to them. Chomsky himself emerged as a prominent gatekeeper after his refusal to engage on third rail topics such as the JFK assassination or 9/11.

Overton Window

Full article: Overton Window

Gatekeeping works by narrowing the spectrum of opinion, by excluding certain ideas from the Overton Window.

 

Examples

Page name	Description
Noam Chomsky	Publicly acclaimed critic of US foreign policy with an encyclopedic knowledge of history, Chomsky has become a gatekeeper by his refusal to contemplate false flag attacks. By 2021 turned proponent of starving dissidents to death in concentration camps.
Counterpunch	A US biweekly political magazine that since 2018 has moved sharply to the official narrative.
Democracy Now!	"Alternative" media with nothing much to say about deep politics.
Jonathan Freedland
Amy Goodman	Presenter of Democracy Now!
Infowars	A website operated by Alex Jones. Loved by its fans, disliked by many in powerful positions. Heavily censored by Big Tech.
Paul Mason	Spooky English writer and broadcaster who, with Carole Cadwalladr, was "unmasked as lap dogs for the security state.<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a>
New Statesman
The Intercept	Website funded by billionaire and deep state operative Pierre Omidyar. Secured control over the documents from Edward Snowden, for then to publish a minuscule percentage of them and hide the rest forever. Has a tendency to reveal whistleblowers.

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