America's Propaganda Model: Assembly Line Production for the Masses

by max blunt
Maufacturing Indifference

Much of the media agenda is noisy and negative, stripped of all meaning:

Superficial, often celebrity-dominated with little in-depth explanatory or investigative journalism.

They would rather market American Idol as the American Ideology. To them, the only “hegemony” in Canada is its beer and hockey.

The people who run our media are, after all, in the end, promoting a culture of consumption, not of engaged citizenship.

They want eyeballs for advertisers, not activists to promote change.

The sound-bytes presented as substance are there for entertainment, not illumination. It’s heat, not light, all the way......LINK