Mass media — Economic aspects.
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To the end of time / Richard Clureman ; interviewed by Pamela Burton.
Ricahrd Clureman is a media analyst. He discusses the Time-Warner merger of 1991 which created the largest information entrerprize the world has ever known. His book, “To The End of Time,” explores Time founder Harry Luce’s editorial philosophy: separation of editors and businessmen. Since that time, however, information and corporate sponsorship have grown closer together.…
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Mass media and a passive populace / Norman Solomon ; interviewed by Bob DeBolt.
Journalist Norman Solomon, co-author of Unreliable Sources: A Guide to Detecting Bias in News Media, discusses how corporate controlled mass media wants people to be passive rather than active, and thus become good consumers who will accomodate themselves to the status quo. News, he continues, encourages people to discount their feellings by destroying the language…