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“The beauty of the system, however, is that such dissent and inconvenient information are kept within bounds and at the margins, so that while their presence sh
by hh3k0 6y ago
“The beauty of the system, however, is that such dissent and inconvenient information are kept within bounds and at the margins, so that while their presence shows that the system is not monolithic, they are not large enough to interfere unduly with the domination of the official agenda.” Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
- duxup 6y agoIs that happening? I was really hoping someone was actually checking beyond quotes, sentiment, and their own topics not getting enough airtime.
- hh3k0 6y agoI take it that you didn't follow the Democratic Primaries? The mass hysteria that ensued on all channels when Bernie Sanders was leading the race, to be specific.
- duxup 6y agoI didn't see any mass hysteria.
- hh3k0 6y agoSeth Meyers is one of the few who addressed it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zjj7VJpqy1w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zjj7VJpqy1w. And that's just a minuscule fraction, the reporting was downright shameful across the board. You'd watch 10 channels and read 10 newspapers reporting on Sanders and you'd feel as if it was 1 channel and 1 paper. One has to wonder if that was due to Bernie proposing to break up internet and cable titans and to introduce a wealth tax. The cable titans own the majority of channels, after all: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_cross-ownership_in_the_United_States#Big_Five https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_cross-ownership_in_the_U.... And the newspaper owning billionaires probably didn't like the wealth tax idea too much either.