MDSA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Noam Chomsky, Touchstone Pictures, Edward S. Herman
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Organizational analysis: news reporting conventions, political - left versus right: "a propaganda model of the news," edward herman and noam chomsky: filters: Size, ownership, profit orientation: advertisers have a de facto licensing authority; their choices influence media prosperity and survival. Sources of mass-media news - mass media are drawn into a symbiotic relationship with powerful sources of information: the "newsmakers. " Flak and the enforcers - "the media is liberal. : anticommunism as a control mechanism - or, more broadly, "fear of the other. , result, dichotomization and propaganda campaigns controlled by those in power to maintain power. "as long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome" - noam. Formalization - formal standards; conformity to organization conventions; professionalization: process = substance. Structure = form: process = behaviours and actions.
