BF199 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Cultural Capital, Making Money, 40 Minutes
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Chomsky manufacturing consent: the political economy of the mass media, ch1. Noam chomsky and edward herman manufacturing consent. In this famous text, chomsky and herman discuss the effects of various institutional pressures on mainstream news media in america (and by extension other western countries). While these pressures repeat some of the trends of late capitalism, what is particularly interesting here is the challenge these pressures pose to the modern enlightenment conception of critical thinking: Insofar as we are all capable of thinking rationally and critically, we are all the universal subjects of modern enlightenment thought. Our contemporary world is a global one, and thus much of the information we have about the world must come to us through media (we can"t be everywhere at once!) Chomsky and herman argue that the filters work so naturally that news media people are able to convince themselves they choose and interpret events objectively.
