Media

I wanted to copy and paste a paragraph from the intro of Manufacturing Consent which succinctly explains in muted, accessible, and nonhyperbolic tones the crux of the model and the subtle causes of the factors that shape what we receive as news. My kindle app doesn't seem to allow copy and past functionality, but hers a link that gets a bit more into the argument than I intended. Anyway, the book is well worth a read. And their explanation is more than plausible. It also explains why chomski himself gets very little mainstream press and is portrayed ss a sort of nutty commie out of touch liberal from MIT. Elitist.

http://www.chomsky.info/onchomsky/2002----.htm

The internet makes news shaping hard for major outlets. I do not feel for them, however.