![]() ![]() ![]() Media Ownership-The endgame of all mass media orgs is profit. See the five filters listed below in brief, with excerpts from Goodman’s commentary:ġ. Those mechanisms largely divide into what the authors called the “Five Filters.” The video at the top of the post, produced by Marcela Pizarro and narrated by Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman, provides a quick introduction to them, in a jarring animated sequence that’s part Monty Python, part Residents video. Their “primary function… in the United States is to mobilize support for the special interests that dominate the government and the private sector.” Those interests may have changed or evolved quite a bit since 1988, but the mechanisms of what Chomsky and Herman identify as “effective and powerful ideological institutions that carry out a system-supportive propaganda function” might work in the age of Twitter just as they did in one dominated by network and cable news. ![]() Herman-that the mass media sells us the idea that we have political agency. ![]() Instead, Chomsky argues in Manufacturing Consent-his 1988 critique of “the political economy of the mass media” with Edward S. is a democracy or a republic, but according to Chomsky, both notions may well be illusory. domestic scene, one of Chomsky’s most pointed and continually relevant critiques addresses the way in which we’re led to believe the country’s actions overseas justify themselves, as well as its actions upon its own citizens. ![]()
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