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The major media are large corporations, owned by and interlinked with even larger conglomerates. Like other corporations, they sell a product to a market. The market is advertisers - that is, other businesses. The product is audiences, [and] for the elite media, [theyre] relatively privileged audiences. So we have major corporations selling fairly wealthy and privileged audiences to other businesses. Not surprisingly, the picture of the world presented reflects the narrow and biased interests and values of the sellers, the buyers and the product. -- Noam Chomsky (from Take the Rich Off Welfare - Odonian Press, p133) Same can be said of our political process...
Posted on: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 02:27:03 +0000

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