Is mainstream media propaganda maintained by conscious design?
Again, we reject any notion of a massive organised covert campaign to manipulate public opinion. This is what Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky have to say about it in Manufacturing Consent: “The ‘societal purpose’ of the media is to inculcate and defend the economic, social, and political agenda of privileged groups that dominate the domestic society and the state. The media serve this purpose in many ways: through selection of topics, distribution of concerns, framing of issues, filtering of information, emphasis and tone, and by keeping debate within the bounds of acceptable premises.” Media Lens would agree that our system can’t be reduced to a cleverly disguised form of ‘1984’. In fact, thought control is far more important and effective in our society because it’s far more hidden. As Chomsky, has famously said: “Propaganda is to democracy what violence is to the totalitarian state.
Again, we reject any notion of a massive organised covert campaign to manipulate public opinion. This is what Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky have to say about it in Manufacturing Consent: “The ‘societal purpose’ of the media is to inculcate and defend the economic, social, and political agenda of privileged groups that dominate the domestic society and the state. The media serve this purpose in many ways: through selection of topics, distribution of concerns, framing of issues, filtering of information, emphasis and tone, and by keeping debate within the bounds of acceptable premises.” Media Lens would agree that our system can’t be reduced to a cleverly disguised form of ‘1984’. In fact, thought control is far more important and effective in our society because it’s far more hidden. As Chomsky, has famously said: “Propaganda is to democracy what violence is to the totalitarian state.
