Week 2 - Manufacturing Consent
- Created by: Eleanor Prescott
- Created on: 15-01-15 15:32
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- Manufacturing Consent
- Key theories
- Liberal pluralism vs Political Economy
- Liberal pluralists argue:
- Assumption that press prop up our democracy
- We inhabit a free market, capitalist society, people are free and equal and hard work is rewarded
- Believe that we should keep society in check
- Liberal Pluralists argue about the media
- Expect the media to be objective and impartial
- Media must respect the rights of the individual
- Press can also be partisan - freedom to express own views
- The media should maintain the status quo
- Should not be owned by the state; shut down the BBC
- Greatest danger to media freedom is the government
- Political economists argue:
- If you want to understand politics, you must turn to economics
- All political parties are capitalist
- We're encouraged to be passive consumers
- The media do not stand up for the minority
- Or challenge the powerful, because they benefit from this power structure
- Agree that the media reproduces the status quo but do not think this is a good thing
- If you want to understand politics, you must turn to economics
- Liberal pluralists argue:
- Louis Althusser: Repressive and Ideological State Apparatuses
- Repressive: physical, military coercion, physical threat
- Ideological: religious institutions, family, education
- Ways of ensuring PEOPLE DON'T REVOLT
- Repressive: physical, military coercion, physical threat
- Ways of ensuring PEOPLE DON'T REVOLT
- Herman and Chomsky Manufacturing Consent
- Five filters
- Ownership
- Advertising
- Reliance on PR
- Flak
- Anticommunism
- Five filters
- Liberal pluralism vs Political Economy
- Key questions
- How do we think about the role of journalists in a democracy?
- Is journalism biased and opinionated or fair and impartial?
- Key theories
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