BF199 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Propaganda Model, Manufacturing Consent, Noam Chomsky
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Ideology vs : the filters work so naturally that news media people are able to convince themselves they choose and interpret events objectively. Mass communication is important to democracy: this can be seen from 2 perspectives, 1) an impartial press is vital to the ability of citizens to participate meaningfully in the democratic process. So if control could be couple with the illusion of participation . 2: but by the mid 1800s, these techniques gave way to faith in marketplace. A rise in the scale of newspapers, based on technological improvements, increased capital costs: looser rules = more effective rule. Also people will stop watching: the ability to produce flak is directly related to power. Foundation, capital legal foundation, media institute, centre for. Filter 5: anti-communism: communism is the ultimate evil haunting property owners. 6: the fuzziness of the definition of communism means it can be used against any threat to ownership.
