Role of the Media
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- Created on: 29-05-19 18:36
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- Role of the Media
- Marxist
- Ralph Miliband - Distortion/Deception/Drug
- Media is the "opium of the people"
- Acts as a hallucinatory drug which creates illusions and produces a sense of wellbeing
- This encourages the working class to accept a system which exploits them
- Marcuse - Distraction
- Programmes which simply entertain help to remove any doubts that people may have about the organisation of society
- They divert the attention from the unfair nature of society, to give the impression that nothing is wrong with the world we live in
- "One-dimensional thought"
- Antonio Gramsci - hegemony (1968)
- Much more effective than force in controlling a proletariat that has the potential to be very disruptive
- Ralph Miliband - Distortion/Deception/Drug
- Pluralist
- Inform and educate
- Journalists provide an essential service in a democratic society, in that they offer the information that people need to participate in political and cultural life
- Checking function
- It monitors the political process in order to ensure that politicians do not abuse the democratic processes
- Important in exposing the wrong-doing of the powerful in society
- Counter-balance function
- Balance out the information provided by government
- by providing the electorate with alternative information from a diverse range of other sources
- Inform and educate
- Postmodern
- Media saturation (increased contact)
- Media Culture (Multiple truths or realities)
- Diversity and Choice
- Blurred boundaries
- Identities
- Marxist
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