BF199 Study Guide - Final Guide: Starbucks, Peaceful Coexistence, Predicable
15 Apr 2016
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Internal contradiction of neoliberalism: the need for a strong state. External critique of neoliberalism: freedom from freedom itself! 8 points of deep ecology: the backbone of the deep ecology movement. The effects of various institutional pressures on mainstream news media in america. Our contemporary world is a global one, and thus much of the info we have about the world must come to us through media. We should be critical, but if we have no alternative source of info to compare with, it becomes more and more dif cult to feel we have any access to truth at all. Anti-communism has interesting links with freud"s notions about externalizing aggressively. 5 filters on mainstream news: size and concentration of ownership, advertising, sources, flak, anti-communism (dichotomization) Filter 1: size and concentration of ownership. Mainstream media rms are large, controlled by wealthy people and subject to market pro t-oriented forces.
