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Noam Chomsky - The 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine
Mar 2, 2017
According to American linguist and political activist, Noam Chomsky, media operate through 5 filters: ownership, advertising, the media elite, flak and the common enemy.
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I studied Chomsky back when he was a linguist, and have bought every book he's written.
It's always good to recharge systems awareness on the commodification of communications, back before we finally learned that the product was us.
