Re:Facebook, Axios and NBC Paid to Whitewash Wikipedia Pages
by mc32 on Friday March 15, 2019 @10:43AM
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I’m sure he and the co author are aware of this. My complaint is that by focusing on big media + gov many readers or people who hear this phrase then often don’t think about the other aspects of this phenomenon (that it’s pervasive and kind of natural) but that we should be aware none the less.
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Re:Facebook, Axios and NBC Paid to Whitewash Wikipedia Pages
by herbstein on Friday March 15, 2019 @11:08AM
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I gave this some more thought, and I think you're wrong. Wrong in the sense that Chomsky and Herman did focus on these things. One of the five filters is "Flack". In this filter "wrong" opinions are given flack from institutions with power. The focus on government comes from them being, arguably, the most powerful institution.
The propaganda model does account for other non-governmental and non-media influences. This is talked about in the animation Al-Jazeera made.