About Effective propaganda must pretend to have different points of view | Who Rules America? (4/6)
The more you watch, the less you know. This episode explores the power of an unaccountable media to set the agenda. Jeff Cohen, who worked in major media and is now one its feistiest critics, suggests that the people who rules America, or even owns America, are the ones who propagandize to America. Not long ago, the big six media conglomerates — General Electric, News Corporation, Disney, Viacom, Time Warner, and CBS — ruled the industry. Since most of them were owned by financial corporations like hedge funds and mutual fund companies, you would not see a lot of criticism going that way, explains the asset manager Barry James Dyke. Similarly, the financial journalist Max Keiser adds that the mainstream media is deeply in debt, unlikely to insult the bankers who have the power to cut off their lines of credit. The documentary also analyses whether the media strengthens democracy or divides people. It is not just a matter of political biases, but the very fact that news organizations are businesses themselves, "entertainifying" the sector to compete with one another.
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