POL 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Music 24, Mobile Billboard, Manifest Destiny
6 Apr 2016
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800 million tvs: more emotional impact illusion of being there. Transnational corporate cultural domination: a world in which private, giant, economic enterprises pursue sometimes competitively, sometimes co-operatively capitalist objectives of profit maximizing and capital accumulation, in continuously changing market and geo- political conditions. (schiller 1991) Deregulation and privatization of the mass media: commercialization of the news (ratings, marginalization of vital social segments (academics, college students, intellectuals, civic groups). Cnn"s lexicon no more than 600 words (heavily used in esl programs: politicization of the media realignment between media and political elite (neoliberals). Murdoch"s political allies: m. thacher, r. reagan, n. Gingrich, g. bush: reduced objectivity interpretation of the facts. Facts do not speak for themselves: reduced alternative interpretations (ward churchill"s controversy, Five major corporate players in mass communication: time-warner, viacom, news corporation, walt disney company, tci (tele-communications inc. ) In the same year, westinghouse received us. 2 billion in military contracts, making it the twelfth largest defence contractor)
