The Mass Media Is Poisoning Us With Hate
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The shaping of the public into antagonistic tribes works commercially. It works politically. But it is a recipe for social disintegration.
by: Chris Hedges
The new media, journalist Matt Taibbi points out, still manufactures consent, but it does so by setting group against group, a consumer version of what George Orwell in his novel “1984” called the “Two Minutes Hate.” (Image: Mr. Fish/Truthdig)
In “Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media,” published in 1988, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky exposed the techniques that the commercial media used to promote and defend the economic, social and political agendas of the ruling elites. These techniques included portraying victims as either worthy or unworthy of sympathy. A Catholic pr...