Philosophy 2730F/G Chapter Notes - Chapter Topic 2: Noam Chomsky, Propaganda Model, Mass Media
19 Apr 2019
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Mass media -> propaganda role: self-censorship: adjust to the realities of source and media organizational requirements. The observable pattern of indignant campaigns and suppressions, of shading and emphasis, and of selection of context, premises, and general agenda, is highly functional for established power and responsive to the needs of the government and the major power. Mass media system (function): amuse, entertain, and inform, and to inculcate individuals with the values, beliefs, and codes of behavior that will integrate them into the institutional structures of the larger society: use of systematic propaganda. Filter to news publish getting message across public. The size, concentrated ownership, profit-oriented of mass media: noted that media, mass media, is an expansive investment. Discipline of media: flake (negative response to media statement/program) and the enforcer. If it is large, it can be uncomfortable and costly to the media: usually flak that is costly and threatening is related to power.
