Democracy's oxygen
how corporations control the news
by James P. Winter and James Winter
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James Winter shows that far from providing "democracy's oxygen," the news media legitimize a fundamentally undemocratic system. Instead of keeping the public informed, news organizations manufacture public consent for policies which favour the corporate elite.
The news media mythology about dedication to the public interest is contrasted with substantial evidence that the news is largely a corporate/management product. The result is "Media Think": group-think on a vast scale which pervades the media and through which they promote narrow ideological dogmas about the world around us, such as: globalization, privatization, social cuts and deficit hysteria.
This book presents the hard facts that illustrate the complicity between government and corporate media interests in Canada.
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Canada, News agencies, Journalism, Mass media, Economics, Politics/International Relations, Social Science, Politics / Current Events, Sociology, Media Studies, Political Ideologies - Democracy, History / United States / 20th Century, Broadcast journalism, Médias, Journalisme, Agences de PressePlaces
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Democracy's Oxygen: How Corporations Control the News
September 1997, Black Rose Books
Paperback
in English
1551640600 9781551640600
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Democracy's oxygen: how corporations control the news
1996, Black Rose Books
1551640600 9781551640600
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