@@bacon6501 Oh yeah? And how many Yanks read any books? The point the OP was making was clearly with reference to being invited to the popular TV shows.
Well I also liked the video but I think its ironic to blindly support an authority before critically thinking about their opinion when the video is largely about critical thinking rather than obey
Good point Fake. But liking before watching was a kind of joke. I just wanted to emphasize that how much I admired Chomsky. And we need him more nowadays. By the way, as Ali S has pointed out, I know that I will at least respect even if I don't agree with him and will fall in love with the beauty of his opinions.
I think newspapers would be a lot better if we could somehow liberate them from the need to turn a profit. I don't know if that is feasible without suspicions of being in the pocket of wherever the funding comes from though. But in the last 10-15 years we've really seen newspapers turn more sensational than ever to make you buy their rag or click their articles. I really don't know if the subscription model can save them as most people seem to think news should be free these days.
What you describe is a publication that receives the majority of its funding from its subscribers rather than advertisers, some exist and yeah they're pretty food
Yeah, we've also seen several examples of, in their quest to be first, newspapers report inaccurate things. Fake news if you will, because they don't take the time to properly check their sources. This of course has long-term effects for their credibility, it's a bit short-sighted to say the least. The newspapers we like to call tabloids do their part in taking journalism to a new low as well. I also wish we could get newspapers out of the hands of wealthy tycoons as Murdoch and the like.
I think you need to understand the peculiar nature of the United States. In the US, there are a variety of "liberal" institutions, such as the media, and previously the Obama administration, which have a responsibility to the American people, but rarely act on that responsibility if it would mean rocking the boat. What's peculiar about the United States is that most of the criticism they receive isn't from people upset with their inaction, but from right-wing groups who are furious that they acted at all. Look at the media, for example. Their coverage of the election was appallingly lazy and irresponsible. They rushed to cover every Trump speech and rally because that's what got the ratings, they covered Clinton "scandals" as though they were real political issues, they let Trump surrogates come on air and lie, unchallenged, to their audience because they were more concerned with appearing "balanced" than they were with actually informing the public, and they rarely called out Trump's lies or reported on any substantive issues, focusing instead on border walls and email servers. Nonetheless, Trump has denounced them, calling them "fake news" and "the enemy of the people" for daring to, on rare occasions, actually do their jobs and report facts that were unfavorable to him. Or, look at Obamacare. Obamacare raised taxes on the wealthy, and used the money to fund medicaid expansion and healthcare subsidies for the poor. Of course, it didn't cover everyone, the people it did cover still had some out of pocket costs, and it allowed private insurance companies to skim their cut off the top, but it was a start. Nonetheless, the Republican party denounced it as communist, fabricated conspiracy theories about "death panels", and refused to expand medicaid in states where they had control of the government. I'm not worried that our liberal institutions are too conservative and won't respond to public pressure. What worries me is that the pressure seems to be coming from the wrong direction.
In other words, there is, in the final analysis, a kind of right wing "meta-bias" of sorts in the media thanks to people like Rupert Murdoch, who run the whole show.
The propaganda model demonstrates that the bias is towards elite opinion. They own it, they advertise in it, they provide the sources, the journalists and editors go to their schools and internalise their views and values
In other words, there is, in the final analysis, a kind of right wing "meta-bias" of sorts in the media thanks to people like Rupert Murdoch, who run the whole show.
