LONDON YOUTHS: November 2011

Friday, 25 November 2011

DEADLINE - NEW YORK TIMES

DEADLINE - NEW YORK TIMES

This is a documentry about the fall of news papers and how it is becoming less popular as new media grows and becomes more popular. David carr works for the new york times as a media editor and he talks about how people now get information and news about the world on the internet eg twitter. people now find out more on the internet before it gets to the newspapers he states "the medium is not the message,the messages are the medium"

In the documentry they also talk about wikileaks by julian assange which also relates to how news gets to the public before the newspapers get it and also the pentagon papers which was a secret newwspaper that reported about the vietnam war and what was going on.things the govenment might not have apoved of.

Applying this to noam chomskys theory of the propaganda theory,it can be said that his theory would be out of date now as he cant relate it to the new media now because everything seems to be reported form different sources.

Sunday, 20 November 2011

What chomsky's views would be on the london riots

based on Chomsky's theory on propaganda if you relate it to the recent london riots and how the media interpreted it, chomsky would say there are two sides of the story but only one is told because thats the propaganda.during the riots most news papers and news agencies put their main focus on the bad disgraceful behaviour of the london youth,they never went in depth as to why or what caused the riots.you could say these agencies only publish what they think the people want to see or believe.Also with the news the have to be carful with what they put for the readers to see because negative comments towards the higher authority (in this case the government) could jeopardise their business. this is were the whole idea of ownership comes in as well as control.

NOAM CHOMSKY (general overview)

Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992) is a documentary film that explores the political life and ideas of Noam Chomsky, a linguist, intellectual, and political activist. Created by two Canadian filmmakers, Mark Achbar and Peter Wintonick, it expands on the ideas of Chomsky's earlier book, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, which he co-wrote with Edward S. Herman.

The film presents and illustrates Chomsky's and Herman's thesis that corporate media, as profit-driven institutions, tend to serve and further the agendas of the interests of dominant, elite groups in the society. A centerpiece of the film is a long examination of the history of The New York Times' coverage of the Indonesian occupation of East Timor, which Chomsky says exemplifies the media's unwillingness to criticize an ally of the elite.The propaganda model is a conceptual model in political economy advanced by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky that states how propaganda, including systemic biases, function in mass media. The model seeks to explain how populations are manipulated and how consent for economic, social and political policies are "manufactured" in the public mind due to this propaganda.

The theory posits that the way in which news is structured (through advertising, media ownership, government sourcing and others) creates an inherent conflict of interest which acts as propaganda for undemocratic forces.

First presented in their 1988 book Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, the "Propaganda model" views the private media as businesses interested in the sale of a product — readers and audiences — to other businesses (advertisers) rather than that of quality news to the public. Describing the media's "societal purpose", Chomsky writes, "... the study of institutions and how they function must be scrupulously ignored, apart from fringe elements or a relatively obscure scholarly literature".^[1] The theory postulates five general classes of "filters" that determine the type of news that is presented in news media. These five classes are:

Ownership of the medium
Medium's funding sources
Sourcing
Flak
Anti-communist ideology

The first three are generally regarded by the authors as being the most important.

Although the model was based mainly on the characterization of United States media, Chomsky and Herman believe the theory is equally applicable to any country that shares the basic economic structure and organizing principles which the model postulates as the cause of media biases