Soc325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Social Market Economy, Homophily, Civil Society
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6th filter? (oliver boyd-barrett: the buying out of journalists or their publications by intelligence and related special interest organizations. *chomsky: people get so caught up with conspiracy theories that they neglect to recognize what the real problems really are: to some extent the 6th filter is more concrete than the other proposed 5. Press pool system: concerns reporting on foreign conflicts involving american troops, first introduced during the 1990/91 gulf conflict, reporters must have a military escort and have stories subject to potential censorship. Above all, a limited range of debate . roughly corresponding to the existing range of political debate and the omission, marginalization or distortion of inconvenient truths. Related trends noted by herman & chomsky: paris victims, remembered (news clip, at least 130 people were killed nov. 13. Algerian violinist, an american college student and many, many music fans. Here are some of their stories (news clip)
