”The leading student of business propaganda, Australian social scientist Alex Carey, argues persuasively that ‘the 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.’”Ĥ. Source: “ Media, Knowledge, and Objectivity”, June 16, 1993ģ. The academic profession plays along with this game.” They try to present themselves as adversarial to power, as subversive, digging away at powerful institutions and undermining them. However, they must do it, because this mask of balance and objectivity is a crucial part of the propaganda function. For example, I don’t try to hide my commitments, and the Washington Post and New York Times shouldn’t do it either. That’s what they would say, very much as their critics say. This is our set of beliefs and commitments. “If the media were honest, they would say, Look, here are the interests we represent and this is the framework within which we look at things. Source: “ Force and Opinion” in Z MagazineĢ.
The logic is straightforward: a despotic state can control its domestic enemies by force, but as the state loses this weapon, other devices are required to prevent the ignorant masses from interfering with public affairs, which are none of their business… the public are to be observers, not participants, consumers of ideology as well as products.” “Control of thought is more important for governments that are free and popular than for despotic and military states. Presented here are selected quotes from the work of Noam Chomsky, which explain the media’s role in oppressing democracy. Way before Facebook, he wrote “Manufacturing Consent”, which proposed that the mainstream media is designed to spread propaganda. In this context, world-renowned philosopher, Noam Chomsky, has very clearly expressed his opinion of the media’s lack of integrity. Unfortunately, unethical behavior is happening everywhere, everyday, on a grand-scale.
Maybe most of it is for the purpose of marketing (think AdSense), but some misleading propaganda is more sinister. Many modern humans implicitly accept the risk proposed by phone surveillance, fake news and subliminal messaging.
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