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If you think U.S. news has a liberal bias, this assumption-shattering film from Noam Chomsky, Edward Herman, and Justin Lewis will have you thinking again. Making the common-sense case that mainstream news media are more committed to their bottom-line interests as large corporations than to left-wing advocacy, they dissect how news content gets shaped within a narrow, and ultimately conservative, institutional frame that marginalizes the progressive perspectives of a broad cross-section of the American public. The film, made before the rise of Fox News, has become only more relevant with time.
"If you want to understand the way a system works, you look at its institutional structure. How it is organized, how it is controlled, how it is funded."
- Noam Chomsky
"The Mainstream media really represent elite interests, and what the propaganda model tries to do is stipulate a set of institutional variables, reflecting this elite power, that very powerfully influence the media."
- Edward Herman Sections: The Propaganda Model & Agenda Setting | The Ownership Filter | The Advertising Filter | The Newsmakers Filter | The News Shapers Filter | The Flak Filter | The Attack on the Welfare State | The Attack on Social Security | The Attack on Health Care | Labor & Business | Anti-Communism & The Free Market | Anti-Communism & The Free Market: Russia | Anti-Communism & The Free Market: Cuba | Dictators & Democracy | Dictators & Democracy: Saddam Hussein | Dictators & Democracy: Suharto
Duration: 60 min
ISBN: 1-893521-56-7
Date Produced: 1997
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Filmmaker Info
Producer, Director: Sut Jhally
Line Producer, Editor: Katherine Sender
Assistant Editor: Sanjay Talreja
Film Festivals
2010 PSBT Open Frame (New Delhi)
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"Demonstrates how ownership of the press and pressure from advertisers filter the news and limit journalists."
- Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice
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