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McChesney

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Journalists do not present the truth in the news. Media owners use news as an ideological tool
- democracy is undermined as the ‘truth’ is constructed around capitalist and right wing values of the owners

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Herman and Chomsky

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News isn’t objective but works around market forces

  • advertising shapes news content; most news organisations are fined by advertising contracts of media companies
  • won’t see news which is anti neoliberal/ free market capitalism because of this
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Edwards and Cromwell

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Corporate crime is therefore left out of the news - it is a propaganda machine

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Evaluation

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Schlesinger- media doesn’t always act in the interest of powerful groups
- politicians are cartel about what they say as not to get slated in the media

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Evaluation - feminism

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Women’s views are often left out - Marxist views do not challenge this