The media.

Oct. 18th, 2007 01:42 pm
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As I sit here, doing some last-minute cramming for my Sociology of the Media midterm, I have to say... I loathe our media system. I hate the convergence we experience -- did you know, for instance, that pretty much ALL the major English-language newspapers in Canada are owned by CanWest Global? Did you know that these papers aren't allowed to badmouth a certain politician? That an editor at the Ottawa Citizen was fired for writing a bad editorial on said politician? (That would be our former prime minister, Jean Chretien.)

The more I learn about the news and media, the less I wish I knew. The amount of stuff that gets filtered out before we see it is astonishing.

It's gross. We get filtered by the owners, by the advertisers, by the sources of the information the media tries to impart to us, by those who would give the media flak for such information and by, according to Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman, anti-communism -- which, 20 years after they wrote this article, has been replaced by "anti-democracy" or "anti-Americanism". Even today, to speak out against the conflict in Iraq or Afghanistan, people are accused of being anti-democratic, anti-American, anti-Western-ideals. It's getting better, but right after September 11th, no one dared breathe a word of any dissenting ideas. They'd be smashed by the flak factories and tagged as anti-American for all time.

Ignorance is bliss when it comes to this stuff. I walked out of my class last week feeling like I was gonna throw up at the notion of being fed filtered stuff for the last 30 years.

Anyways. Must get ready to go. Exam, then seeing VP alone, without [livejournal.com profile] drsnicket for probably the first time in more than a decade. Freaky.
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