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Television Propaganda Illusion
What do ya think? I watch perhaps 1-2 hour a day..
Network is a great film. "I'm mad as hell and I'm not gonna take it anymore!"
Watch 6 hours of TV, you've watched about an hour of commercials (i.e. corporate propaganda). Media's primary role is attracting advertisers by selling them the audience they have, thus the importance of having high viewership and ratings. So Fox News caters to conservative audiences. MSNBC caters to liberal audiences. The Discovery Channel to more intellectual audiences, the E channel to audiences who care about celebrity news...I hate the fact that I pay for satellite television, but still have to watch the damn commercials. If I pay for TV, why the hell do I have to watch commercials??
Can't forget about the propaganda model...
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| Mainstream Media Chomsky has argued that inherent within private media is a systemic bias which is the anti-thesis of objective journalism. He developed the �Propaganda Model� in a 1988 book written with Edward Herman called Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media. The theory postulates that a media corporation's main objective is to profit from the selling of a product. The product is the news broadcast but the customers are not the audience which watches the broadcasts. Advertisers are the greatest interest of any media broadcaster because they are the primary source of revenue for any private media company. The model postulates a series of 5 filters of media which influence the coverage of news events (1988)... 1. Ownership 2. Funding 3. Sourcing 4. Flak 5. Anti-Ideologies The majority of the mass media is owned by a select few multi-national corporation's such as General Electric or News Corp. The first filter postulates that these companies have financial interests far exceeding simple media. If these companies encounter a news event which may be detrimental to their corporate interests, their coverage of that event will probably be censored to protect such interests. Media companies must also protect their sources of revenue which is the advertisers. News is not the product of mass media but rather their advertisements. According to the �Funding Filter� (1988), publications and broadcasts are not designed for the best method of news coverage, but rather, are designed to attract readers and viewers to their brand. Doing this enables the media company to sell more of their advertising space (which is their main product) and so ratings become much more important than news coverage. Most media companies form a special sourcing relationship with the government, specifically, the White House and Pentagon. The relationship can best be described as symbiotic; I will help you if you help me. In the event a journalist decides to challenge government policy by asking tough questions to policy officials, they are more likely to be shut out of future press conferences or denied future interviews. Most avoid asking such questions to preserve their place in future press conferences and interview time. The government or Pentagon becomes the source of facts while the journalist merely writes them down for publication. This is in detriment to objective journalism. Flak is a term used to describe any backlash of a publication or broadcast which goes against the status quo. This is important because in the event a journalist publishes a highly critical piece which criticizes a powerful corporate or governmental interest, the flak received could be influential enough to derail the entire media company. So publications or broadcasts must be censored to protect the company from special interest groups, lobby groups, shareholder petitions, FCC inquiries, etc. This is one more filter of news coverage. Anti-ideologies compose the 5th filter and probably the most important. Mass media companies take advantage of the public's fears against real, potential, or exaggerated dangers. Anti-communism was the ideology which took advantage of the people's fear of the Soviet Union, and was used as a means to silence those critical of elite interests as communist sympathizers. Today, the anti-ideology is Islamism. Little coverage is given in the mass media of very important Muslim grievances against the West. Media companies such as Fox News take advantage of the public's fear of terrorism and uses it to justify all American interests in the Middle East as a �War on Terror�. The propaganda model in essence labels all mass media corporation's as capitalist propaganda and justifies this conclusion with the premises of 5 filters which news coverage must fall through before publication or broadcast. The solution to such propaganda is independent media such as the BBC, PBS, and a myriad of news organizations which are publicly funded. |
I watch a lot of Food TV. I'm not obese yet, but I fear they may have me in their sights.
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| Originally posted by Shakka I watch a lot of Food TV. I'm not obese yet, but I fear they may have me in their sights. |
i don't care where you are politically or on "media propaganda" but you gotta love The Soup.
^^Wow dude i like your sig 
didnt noticed it till now.
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Little coverage is given in the mass media of very important Muslim grievances against the West. |
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The propaganda model in essence labels all mass media corporation's as capitalist propaganda and justifies this conclusion with the premises of 5 filters which news coverage must fall through before publication or broadcast. The solution to such propaganda is independent media such as the BBC, PBS, and a myriad of news organizations which are publicly funded. |
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| Originally posted by LatinLover ^^Wow dude i like your sig didnt noticed it till now. |
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| Originally posted by Q5echo i know, right? beware the Chosen One. |
I canceled my Comcast television but I still get it 
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| Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN funny, coz any asshole could be a better president than george. |
but this asshole could:
and he doesn't even know that much about the US. still more than george though! 
Notice how it is the Republicans who call Obama "The Chosen One"..
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| Originally posted by Krypton Notice how it is the Republicans who call Obama "The Chosen One".. |
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| Originally posted by Q5echo isn't he? |
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| Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN but this asshole could: and he doesn't even know that much about the US. still more than george though! |
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| Originally posted by Krypton Why are you asking me? You're the one calling him the "Chosen One". I think Republicans are jealous of Obama's popularity. They wish McCain could rally together tens of thousands of people in a single rally. People want change. Obama has branded himself the candidate of change. McCain has branded himself as "A Maverick Who Wins Wars". Greaaat, just what we need, more wars... |
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| Originally posted by Krypton Notice how it is the Republicans who call Obama "The Chosen One".. |
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| Originally posted by LatinLover Nobody is jelous of Obama... this is something made up by the desperate far left like yourself. Kypton a question, how the hell can you switch from a candidate like Ron Paul to Obamania? Till this day i dont get that... they are totally diffrent. oh well i guess thats the popular thing to do now. |
Why the fuck would I vote for Bush's 3rd term?
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| Originally posted by LazFX Cause the can't call him nigga.... thats why..... and thats the honest fucking hard truth! fucking Republicans man... that anti Christ commercial and that fucking Superstar video just fucking grinds my gears... Is he the Messiah or is he the Anti Christ.. is a Muslim this week or a Christian?? Is a Jew lover or not?? jesus christ on a pogo stick ...... this shit is starting to get old. it is fun though watching the old power system squirm .... seeing them shore up and chomping at the bit for Obama to miss step.... what ever happened to the Whitey Audio tape?? anyone?? |
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| Originally posted by Krypton Yes, you are jealous of Obama. Like I said, it isn't his supporters calling him the "Chosen One", it's detractors such as yourself who have nothing else to say about his popularity, so you come up with this "anti-christ/messiah" bullshit. How do I switch from Ron Paul to Obama...easy, Ron Paul lost the primary...smart one.. Why the fuck would I vote for Bush's 3rd term? |
I guess that you were infected by Obamas flip flopping very easily. God bless you!
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| Originally posted by LatinLover All of a sudden this presidential race is about popularity. Im sorry but I dont go around voting for candidates that are popular so I can feel secure like yourself. |
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| I want to get this straight... You were first going for a Republican now a Democrat I guess that you were infected by Obamas flip flopping very easily. God bless you! |
The only propaganda here is the one coming out of Obamas campaign. I got to had it to them, they are professional liars.
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