The Myth of the Liberal Media: The Propaganda Model of News

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Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky demolish one of the central tenets of our political culture, the idea of the "liberal media." Instead, utilizing a systematic model based on massive empirical research, they reveal the manner in which the news media are so subordinated to corporate and conservative interests that their function can only be described as that of "elite propaganda."

Channel: News & Politics
Uploaded: October 4, 2006 at 10:41 am
Author: ChallengingMedia

Length: 00:05:32
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Tags: MEF Media Education Literacy Critical Mass Industry Educational Sut Jhally Noam Chomsky Edward Herman Liberal Politics

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moonbear1006 (December 5, 2008 at 2:03 am)
"the purpose of the state is to save the rich when they inevitably screw up", I really have no words for this.

You need to do much more research on what Capitalism (and socialism) truly is. You can keep replying with these sorts of ill-conceived comments, but you are not entitled to your own facts. You can believe anything you like, but your opinion alone does not make you correct. I will leave it there and leave it to you to do more research on this topic. End of discussion.
moonbear1006 (December 5, 2008 at 1:52 am)
Actually, I did not phrase this point as I had meant it. However, my point is correct, socialism by its very essence means the state ALREADY owns and controls enterprise, so naturally it does intervene it runs the business! State control of and intervention in its own business is so blatantly and obviously a part of socialism in its essence, so why would this need pointing out?
moonbear1006 (December 5, 2008 at 1:23 am)
Completey wrong!!!! You are just not making any sense to suggest 'Intervention can only happen in capitalist society'. Government regulation and intervention is the very hallmark of socialism. Capitalism is about de-regulation & contra to public or state intervention.

Socialism is defined as "social and economic doctrine that calls for public rather than private ownership or CONTROL".
TasinAkiwo (December 5, 2008 at 12:40 am)
You proved my point with this comment.
TasinAkiwo (December 5, 2008 at 12:39 am)
Wrong. The very essence of socialism is worker control of the workplace and democratic control of the economy. Intervention can only happen in a capitalist society, because if the workers controlled the workplace, there would be no need for them to intervene.
An action can only be socialist if all members of society choose an action and all benefit from it. This is a select group of people making economic decisions for everyone, a.k.a. capitalism.
TasinAkiwo (December 5, 2008 at 12:35 am)
When has capitalism ever existed without a state to prop it up? Capitalism owes its very existence to the state! Within a capitalist society, the purpose of the state is to save the rich when they inevitably screw up. This is exactly that. Capitalism isn't acting any differently then it has always acted, a few rich people screwing everything up for everyone else, then taking what they need from everyone else to save themselves. Show me a time and place when that wasn't true.
moonbear1006 (December 4, 2008 at 11:24 pm)
And, of course it is wealthy business owners who defend something that benefits them! They pocket profits under capitalist system, yet they want to use public money for their losses when they mismanage a corporation & should take the loss as a result. Of course they would defend a pay out for failure. Socialists would not agree with it b/c in socialsm public gets to share company profit, so if they don't share private profits why would they want to pay someone's private losses!
moonbear1006 (December 4, 2008 at 10:51 pm)
Further, the very essence of socialism is public/state ownership, control & intervention. So intervention is socialism's intrinsic nature, why does this need pointing out. Socialism is collectivism, sharing of profits & losses collectively. This is why the collective public sharing of private company losses are termed 'corporate socialism'. The public has not benefited from private profits yet is expected to collectively bear private losses.
BrenMan94 (December 4, 2008 at 6:02 pm)
The word "media" is Latin for "medians". How ironic.
moonbear1006 (December 4, 2008 at 5:48 pm)
Also, on your other point, how can the state 'bail out' its own business, it already owns it?