Why wouldn’t the wealthiest men in the world own the media too? In fact, after rising to power, it only makes good business sense to set up a promotional aparatus designed to legitimize your power and create your own self-supporting narrative.
This phenomenon is well-documented, perhaps most expertly by linguist Noam Chomsky, who ”postulates five general classes of ‘filters’ that determine the type of news that is presented in news media.
These five classes are:
- Ownership of the medium
- Medium’s funding sources
- Sourcing
- Flak
- Anti-communist/Anti-terrorist ideology
How many media sources can you find that are not dictated by those who pull these levers of control?
