Philosophy 2730F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Media Bias In The United States, Joseph Schumpeter, Profit Motive
29 Oct 2014
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What the citizens of a democratic society should expect from the media. Force is no longer necessary, and democracy is possible, because the media helps to manufacture the consent" of the governed, who are convinced to accept the power structures of the status quo as inevitable. Today, our first article presents a direct challenge to two views similar to. Chomsky"s trying to establish that defenders of a position similar to his have presented little empirical evidence to support the claim that the media prioritizes profits over its role as a critical fourth branch of government. Our second article presents a different kind of challenge to chomsky"s view; it begins by accepting that the media does not provide information that helps citizens become better political participants. Anderson argues, however, that this failure is only problematic if we believe that democracy requires citizens to be deliberative.
