SOCI 100 Lecture Notes - Rupert Murdoch, Edward S. Herman, Propaganda Model
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Manufacturing consent: the political economy of the mass media (edward herman and noam chomsky) Talking about the media system in the us (and how it differs from other countries that have more public media) Flak: responding back to news corporations, contesting their news, threatening if they go forward with their stories, making it difficult for them to report their news. Ideology as a filter: dominant filter is not anti-communist in the present, dominant: anti-terrorism (free market ideology, liberal ideology) Problem: people assume the journalists are the ones who are inflecting liberal propaganda; but it"s the owners. Idea of liberal media is a myth, it is actually very conservative. The ownership filter: huge corporations run the media, media owners are more conservative than most mainstream americans, rupert murdoch, world leaders have to kiss rupert murdoch"s ass so they"re portrayed nicely in the media.
