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Why American Media Sucks
Posted on July 8th, 2005 by Daniel
The light dawns. That’s the clearest explaination I’ve seen yet of why we can’t get any clear information from our media. It would appear that only comedians are free to question the “Moral Majority” and get paid for it.
You’ll probably like Manufacturing Consent, which contains the core thesis that #2 is a gross simplification of, along with the role played by what Herman terms “flak” — examples given include a businessman in Boston getting PBS to drop an environmental expose because it was deemed “anti-business”.
It’s popular enough that you can probably find it at (at least) university libraries or get it from the publisher, but I’ve didn’t find it at either of the big chain coffee bars — erm, bookstores — that I looked for it at. If you do look for it, make sure you get the actual book, not the companion-to-the-movie-about-the-book book (which I did see at Borders).
Thanks, I’ll look into it.