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."

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[kjv387]

Reading the "About" section of the video, I see exactly where the problem is: the same people who can't grasp that corporate media conglomerates are against their best interests, also don't know the meanings of "central tenet," "utilizing systematic model," "massive empirical research," or "subordinated." all they will hear is "elite propoganda" and will hate the "liberal elite" even more! :( when will we start educating our citizens on critically assessing sources? sigh.

[PikPobedy]

Notice how conservatives all get offended and confused over this.

[BigBluenym]

@DontRepYourCity bush was elected twice because there was enough people smart enough to see that kerry was stupid..when bush was in office all the democratic media was raving about how his gas prices are outrageous and that we need a democrat to bring down the gas prices..well the gas prices are way worse than they are now, and i dont see any media going on about that

[therrydicule]

@ralph489 MSNBC is owned by comcast and GE. GE gave $37,750 to Mitt Romney, $20,400 to Scott Brown, $30,493 to Obama, $11,415 to Sheldon Whithehouse, 10 000 to Joe Beoner. They give to incumbent, no real difference between GOP or Democrat.

A bit similar for Comcast : although they give a bit more to Democrat in senate and republican in the house (total 560k vs 500k), the stronger bias is toward incumbent, not lib's or conservator...

[therrydicule]

@kjv387 Well, they could understand "corporations own the media and they want to make cash, so they are for any laws that could push them to make more cash even if it mean that the news are shitty."

[ndrwrainey]

i laugh at how liberals love this and conservatives hate it. you are labeling yourselves, all the while unknowingly both political parties work together to keep you in your place. dems/repubs, two parties who amazingly carry forward the same policies no matter which one is in charge, yet you fools take sides as if there is one. stop please

[DontRepYourCity]

I think if the media truly did have a liberal slant George W. Bush would've never been elected POTUS for 2 terms, the Tea Party would never have gotten any influence, the Koch Brothers would be behind bars, & we would have had a Democrat-majority in both houses of Congress today.

[jonny8908]

@FredFan8 so do you watch fox news. the media is corporate. the cable news shows are only concerned about ratings and their big egos no matter what they are saying. If their was a liberal media both democrats and republicans will be both accountable. look at the SOPA story which got no press attention till only wikipedia started their black out and the same with the occupy wall street. If it was liberal would we have stories without corporate influence

[ChanneledKnowledge]

if u want INTERNATIONAL CURRENT EVENTS in english, that are some reason ignored by the western media then please visist CHANNELEDKNOWLEDGE:ORG its the news mainstream media ignores..

[sunzoo1]

@FredFan8 Then turn on your brain and turn off Fox news, doofus.